25 CFR § 161.712 - What are the penalties, damages, and costs payable by trespassers?

---
identifier: "/us/cfr/t25/s161.712"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "25 CFR § 161.712 - What are the penalties, damages, and costs payable by trespassers?"
title_number: 25
title_name: "Indians"
section_number: "161.712"
section_name: "What are the penalties, damages, and costs payable by trespassers?"
chapter_name: "BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR"
subchapter_number: "H"
subchapter_name: "LAND AND WATER"
part_number: "161"
part_name: "NAVAJO PARTITIONED LANDS GRAZING PERMITS"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-04-05"
last_updated: "2026-04-05"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "25 U.S.C. 2; 5 U.S.C. 301; 25 U.S.C. 640d"
regulatory_source: "70 FR 58888, Oct. 7, 2005, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "161"
---


# 161.712 What are the penalties, damages, and costs payable by trespassers?

Trespassers on Navajo Partitioned Lands must pay the following penalties and costs:

(a) Collection of the value of the products illegally used or removed plus a penalty of double their values;

(b) Costs associated with any damage to Navajo Partitioned Lands and/or property;

(c) The costs associated with enforcement of the provisions, including field examination and survey, damage appraisal, investigation assistance and reports, witness expenses, demand letters, court costs, and attorney fees;

(d) Expenses incurred in gathering, impounding, caring for, and disposal of livestock in cases which necessitate impoundment under § 161.707; and

(e) All other penalties authorized by law.