[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 36, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 36CFR1.4]

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              TITLE 36--PARKS, FORESTS, AND PUBLIC PROPERTY
 
      CHAPTER I--NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 1_GENERAL PROVISIONS--Table of Contents
 
Sec.  1.4  What terms do I need to know?

    (a) The following definitions shall apply to this chapter, unless 
modified by the definitions for a specific part or regulation:
    Abandonment means the voluntary relinquishment of property with no 
intent to retain possession.
    Administrative activities means those activities conducted under the 
authority of the National Park Service for the purpose of safeguarding 
persons or property, implementing management plans and policies 
developed in accordance and consistent with the regulations in this 
chapter, or repairing or maintaining government facilities.
    Airboat means a vessel that is supported by the buoyancy of its hull 
and powered by a propeller or fan above the waterline. This definition 
should not be construed to mean a ``hovercraft,'' that is supported by a 
fan-generated air cushion.
    Aircraft means a device that is used or intended to be used for 
human flight in the air, including powerless flight.
    Archeological resource means material remains of past human life or 
activities that are of archeological interest and are at least 50 years 
of age. This term includes, but shall not be limited to, objects made or 
used by humans, such as pottery, basketry, bottles, weapons, weapon 
projectiles, tools, structures or portions of structures, pit houses, 
rock paintings, rock carvings, intaglios, or any portion or piece of the 
foregoing items, and the physical site, location or context in which 
they are found, or human skeletal materials or graves.
    Authorized emergency vehicle means a vehicle in official use for 
emergency purposes by a Federal agency or an emergency vehicle as 
defined by State law.
    Authorized person means an employee or agent of the National Park 
Service with delegated authority to enforce the provisions of this 
chapter.
    Bicycle means every device propelled solely by human power upon 
which a person or persons may ride on land, having one, two, or more 
wheels, except a manual wheelchair.
    Boundary means the limits of lands or waters administered by the 
National Park Service as specified by Congress, or denoted by 
presidential proclamation, or recorded in the records of a state or 
political subdivision in accordance with applicable law, or published 
pursuant to law, or otherwise published or posted by the National Park 
Service.
    Camping means the erecting of a tent or shelter of natural or 
synthetic material, preparing a sleeping bag or other bedding material 
for use, parking of a motor vehicle, motor home or trailer, or mooring 
of a vessel for the apparent purpose of overnight occupancy.
    Carry means to wear, bear, or have on or about the person.
    Controlled substance means a drug or other substance, or immediate 
precursor, included in schedules I, II, III, IV, or V of part B of the 
Controlled Substance Act (21 U.S.C. 812) or a drug

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or substance added to these schedules pursuant to the terms of the Act.
    Cultural resource means material remains of past human life or 
activities that are of significant cultural interest and are less than 
50 years of age. This term includes, but shall not be limited to, 
objects made or used by humans, such as pottery, basketry, bottles, 
weapons, weapon projectiles, tools, structures or portions of 
structures, or any portion or piece of the foregoing items, and the 
physical site, location, or context in which they are found, or human 
skeletal materials or graves.
    Developed area means roads, parking areas, picnic areas, 
campgrounds, or other structures, facilities or lands located within 
development and historic zones depicted on the park area land management 
and use map.
    Director means the Director of the National Park Service.
    Dive flag means a flag not less than 12 inches square, red in color, 
with a white stripe running diagonally from the top of the staff to the 
opposite lower corner. The white stripe shall be one-fifth the width of 
the flag.
    Downed aircraft means an aircraft that cannot become airborne as a 
result of mechanical failure, fire, or accident.
    Firearm means a loaded or unloaded pistol, rifle, shotgun or other 
weapon which is designed to, or may be readily converted to, expel a 
projectile by the ignition of a propellant.
    Fish means any member of the subclasses Agnatha, Chondrichthyes, or 
Osteichthyes, or any mollusk or crustacean found in salt water.
    Fishing means taking or attempting to take fish.
    Flat wake speed means the minimum required speed to leave a flat 
wave disturbance close astern a moving vessel yet maintain steerageway, 
but in no case in excess of 5 statute miles per hour.
    Harbor means a natural or artificially improved body of water 
providing protection for vessels, which may include anchorage, mooring 
or docking facilities.
    Hunting means taking or attempting to take wildlife, except 
trapping.
    Legislative jurisdiction means lands and waters under the exclusive 
or concurrent jurisdiction of the United States.
    Manned submersible means any vessel that carries or is capable of 
carrying passenger(s) within the confines of the vessel below the 
surface of the water.
    Manual wheelchair means a device that is propelled by human power, 
designed for and used by a mobility-impaired person.
    Motorcycle means every motor vehicle having a seat for the use of 
the rider and designed to travel on not more that three wheels in 
contact with the ground, but excluding a tractor.
    Motorized wheelchair means a self-propelled wheeled device, designed 
solely for and used by a mobility-impaired person for locomotion, that 
is both capable of and suitable for use in indoor pedestrian areas.
    Motor vehicle means every vehicle that is self-propelled and every 
vehicle that is propelled by electric power, but not operated on rails 
or upon water, except a snowmobile and a motorized wheelchair.
    National Park System (Park area) means any area of land and water 
now or hereafter administered by the Secretary of the Interior through 
the National Park Service for park, monument, historic, parkway, 
recreational, or other purposes.
    Net means a seine, weir, net wire, fish trap, or other implement 
designed to entrap fish, except a hand-held landing net used to retrieve 
fish taken by hook and line.
    Nondeveloped area means all lands and waters within park areas other 
than developed areas.
    Operator means a person who operates, drives, controls, otherwise 
has charge of or is in actual physical control of a mechanical mode of 
transportation or any other mechanical equipment.
    Other Federal reservations in the environs of the District of 
Columbia means Federal areas, which are not under the administrative 
jurisdiction of the National Park Service, located in Arlington, 
Fairfax, Loudoun, Prince William, and Stafford Counties and the City of 
Alexandria in Virginia and Prince Georges, Charles, Anne Arundel, and 
Montgomery Counties in Maryland, exclusive of military reservations, 
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the policing of military reservations by the U.S. Park Police is 
specifically requested by the Secretary of Defense or a designee 
thereof.
    Pack animal means horses, burros, mules or other hoofed mammals when 
designated as pack animals by the superintendent.
    Park area. See the definition for National Park System in this 
section.
    Park road means the main-traveled surface of a roadway open to motor 
vehicles, owned, controlled or otherwise administered by the National 
Park Service.
    Permit means a written authorization to engage in uses or activities 
that are otherwise prohibited, restricted, or regulated.
    Person means an individual, firm, corporation, society, association, 
partnership, or private or public body.
    Personal watercraft refers to a vessel, usually less than 16 feet in 
length, which uses an inboard, internal combustion engine powering a 
water jet pump as its primary source of propulsion. The vessel is 
intended to be operated by a person or persons sitting, standing or 
kneeling on the vessel, rather than within the confines of the hull. The 
length is measured from end to end over the deck excluding sheer, 
meaning a straight line measurement of the overall length from the 
foremost part of the vessel to the aftermost part of the vessel, 
measured parallel to the centerline. Bow sprits, bumpkins, rudders, 
outboard motor brackets, and similar fittings or attachments, are not 
included in the measurement. Length is stated in feet and inches.
    Pet means a dog, cat or any animal that has been domesticated.
    Possession means exercising direct physical control or dominion, 
with or without ownership, over property, or archeological, cultural or 
natural resources.
    Power-driven vessel means any vessel propelled by machinery.
    Practitioner means a physician, dentist, veterinarian, scientific 
investigator, pharmacy, hospital or other person licensed, registered or 
otherwise permitted by the United States or the jurisdiction in which 
such person practices to distribute or possess a controlled substance in 
the course of professional practice.
    Public use limit means the number of persons; number and type of 
animals; amount, size and type of equipment, vessels, mechanical modes 
of conveyance, or food/beverage containers allowed to enter, be brought 
into, remain in, or be used within a designated geographic area or 
facility; or the length of time a designated geographic area or facility 
may be occupied.
    Refuse means trash, garbage, rubbish, waste papers, bottles or cans, 
debris, litter, oil, solvents, liquid waste, or other discarded 
materials.
    Regional Director means the official in charge of a geographic area 
of the National Park Service.
    Sailing vessel means any vessel under sail provided, if propelling 
machinery is fitted, it is not being used.
    Secretary means the Secretary of the Interior.
    Services means, but is not limited to, meals and lodging, labor, 
professional services, transportation, admission to exhibits, use of 
telephone or other utilities, or any act for which payment is 
customarily received.
    Sewage means human body waste or the waste from a toilet or other 
receptacle intended to receive or retain body waste.
    Smoking means the carrying of lighted cigarettes, cigars or pipes, 
or the intentional and direct inhalation of smoke from these objects.
    Snowmobile means a self-propelled vehicle intended for travel 
primarily on snow, having a curb weight of not more than 1000 pounds 
(450 kg), driven by a track or tracks in contact with the snow, and 
steered by ski or skis in contact with the snow.
    State means a State, territory, or possession of the United States.
    State law means the applicable and nonconflicting laws, statutes, 
regulations, ordinances, infractions and codes of the State(s) and 
political subdivision(s) within whose exterior boundaries a park area or 
a portion thereof is located.
    Superintendent means the official in charge of a park area or an 
authorized representative thereof.
    Take or taking means to pursue, hunt, harass, harm, shoot, trap, 
net, capture,

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collect, kill, wound, or attempt to do any of the above.
    Traffic means pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, and 
other conveyances, either singly or together while using any road, 
trail, street or other thoroughfare for purpose of travel.
    Traffic control device means a sign, signal, marking or other device 
placed or erected by, or with the concurrence of, the Superintendent for 
the purpose of regulating, warning, guiding or otherwise controlling 
traffic or regulating the parking of vehicles.
    Trap means a snare, trap, mesh, wire or other implement, object or 
mechanical device designed to entrap or kill animals other than fish.
    Trapping means taking or attempting to take wildlife with a trap.
    Underwater diving means the use of any apparatus, whether self 
contained or connected to a distant source of air or other gas, whereby 
a person wholly or partially submerged in water, can obtain or reuse air 
or any other gas or gasses for breathing without returning to the 
surface of the water. Underwater diving would include, but is not be 
limited to use of SCUBA, surface supplied air, mixed gas, or re-
breathers.
    Underway means when a vessel is not at anchor, moored, made fast to 
the shore or docking facility, or aground.
    Unloaded, as applied to weapons and firearms, means that: (1) There 
is no unexpended shell, cartridge, or projectile in any chamber or 
cylinder of a firearm or in a clip or magazine inserted in or attached 
to a firearm;
    (2) A muzzle-loading weapon does not contain gun powder in the pan, 
or the percussion cap is not in place; and
    (3) Bows, crossbows, spear guns or any implement capable of 
discharging a missile or similar device by means of a loading or 
discharging mechanism, when that loading or discharging mechanism is not 
charged or drawn.
    Un-manned submersible means any device operated by remote control, 
used or capable of being used, to search or collect below the surface of 
the water. This definition does not apply to a device being used 
lawfully for fishing.
    Vehicle means every device in, upon, or by which a person or 
property is or may be transported or drawn on land, except snowmobiles 
and devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary 
rails or track.
    Vessel means every description of watercraft, or other artificial 
contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation 
on the water. This definition does not apply to a seaplane on the water.
    Weapon means a firearm, compressed gas or spring-powered pistol or 
rifle, bow and arrow, crossbow, blowgun, speargun, hand-thrown spear, 
slingshot, irritant gas device, explosive device, or any other implement 
designed to discharge missiles, and includes a weapon the possession of 
which is prohibited under the laws of the State in which the park area 
or portion thereof is located.
    Wildlife means any member of the animal kingdom and includes a part, 
product, egg or offspring thereof, or the dead body or part thereof, 
except fish.
    (b) In addition to the definitions in paragraph (a), for the purpose 
of the regulations contained in parts 3 and 7 of this chapter, the 
definitions pertaining to navigation, navigable waters and shipping 
enumerated in title 14 United States Code, title 33 Code of Federal 
Regulations, title 46 Code of Federal Regulations, title 49 Code of 
Federal Regulations, the Federal Boating Safety Act of 1971, and the 
Inland Navigational Rules Act of 1980, shall apply for boating and water 
activities.

[48 FR 30275, June 30, 1983, as amended at 49 FR 18449, Apr. 30, 1984; 
51 FR 37011, Oct. 17, 1986; 52 FR 10683, Apr. 2, 1987; 60 FR 55790, Nov. 
3, 1995; 61 FR 35136, July 5, 1996; 62 FR 30234, June 3, 1997; 65 FR 
15089, Mar. 21, 2000; 72 FR 13702, Mar. 23, 2007]