18 USC § 1858 - Survey marks destroyed or removed

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identifier: "/us/usc/t18/s1858"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_legal_evidence"
title: "18 USC § 1858 - Survey marks destroyed or removed"
title_number: 18
title_name: "CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE"
section_number: "1858"
section_name: "Survey marks destroyed or removed"
chapter_number: 91
chapter_name: "PUBLIC LANDS"
part_number: "I"
part_name: "CRIMES"
positive_law: true
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-21"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 789; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(E), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2146.)"
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# § 1858. Survey marks destroyed or removed

Whoever willfully destroys, defaces, changes, or removes to another place any section corner, quarter-section corner, or meander post, on any Government line of survey, or willfully cuts down any witness tree or any tree blazed to mark the line of a Government survey, or willfully defaces, changes, or removes any monument or bench mark of any Government survey, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.

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**Source Credit**: (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 789; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(E), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2146.)

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 111 (, ).

Minor changes were made in phraseology.

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1994— substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $250”.