{"data":{"id":"us/43-cfr-9264.7","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"43 CFR 9264.7","heading":"Wild free-roaming horse and burro protection, management, and control.","body":"(a) Prohibited acts. In accordance with section 8 of the Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act (16 U.S.C. 1338), any person who:\n(1) Willfully removes or attempts to remove a wild free-roaming horse or burro from the public lands, without authority from the authorized officer, or\n(2) Converts a wild free-roaming horse or burro to private use, without authority from the authorized officer, or\n(3) Maliciously causes the death or harassment of any wild free-roaming horse or burro, or\n(4) Processes, or permits to be processed, into commercial products the remains of a wild free-roaming horse or burro, or\n(5) Sells, directly or indirectly, a wild free-roaming horse or burro, or the remains thereof, which have not lost their status as a wild free-roaming horse of burro, or\n(6) Uses a wild free-roaming horse or burro for commercial exploitation, or\n(7) Causes or is responsible for the inhumane treatment of a wild free-roaming horse or burro, or\n(8) Uses a wild free-roaming horse or burro for bucking stock, or\n(9) Fails, upon written notice, to produce for inspection by an authorized officer those animals assigned to him for private maintenance under a cooperative agreement, or\n(10) Fails to notify the authorized officer of the death of a wild free-roaming horse or burro within 7 days of death pursuant to § 4740.4-2(f) of this title, or\n(11) Removes or attempts to remove, alters or destroys any official mark identifying a wild horse or burro, or its remains, or\n(12) Being the assignee of a wild free-roaming horse or burro, or having charge or custody of the animal, abandons the animal without making arrangements for necessary food, water and shelter, or\n(13) Being the assignee of a wild free-roaming horse or burro, or having charge or custody of the animal, fails to diligently pursue in an attempt to capture the escaped animal, or\n(14) Accepts for slaughter or destruction a horse or burro bearing an official Bureau of Land Management identification mark, and which is not accompanied by a certificate that title to the animal has been transferred, or\n(15) After acceptance of an animal for slaughter or destruction, fails to retain for one year the certificate of title to a horse or burro bearing an official Bureau of Land Management identification mark, or\n(16) Willfully violates any provisions of the regulations under § 9264.7 of this title shall be subject to a fine of not more than $2,000 or imprisonment for not more than 1 year, or both. Any person so charged with such violation by the authorized officer may be tried and sentenced by a U.S. Commissioner or magistrate, designated for that purpose by the court by which he/she was appointed, in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as provided in section 3401, title 18, U.S.C.","path":["Title 43—Public Lands: Interior","Subtitle B—Regulations Relating to Public Lands","CHAPTER II—BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR","SUBCHAPTER I—TECHNICAL SERVICES (9000) Group 9100—Engineering","PART 9260—LAW ENFORCEMENT—CRIMINAL","Subpart 9264—Range Management"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-43.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:26:15Z","sha256":"3d1b291fd2587a3e89e90fec9d884050c003b13462b154c02bc9ba8e44b6f085","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/43-cfr-9264.3","next":"us/43-cfr-9265.0-3"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}