Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores
§ 113. Examinations, excavations, and gathering objects of interest
Statutory text
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to permit examinations, excavations, and other gathering of objects of interest within said park by any person or persons whom he may deem properly qualified to conduct such examinations, excavations, or gatherings, subject to such rules and regulations as he may prescribe: Provided always, That the examinations, excavations, and gatherings shall be undertaken only for the benefit of some reputable museum, university, college, or other recognized scientific or educational institution, with a view to increasing the knowledge of such objects and aiding the general advancement of archaeological science.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 59–3607 § 3 · 34 Stat. 616
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 113
(June 29, 1906, ch. 3607, § 3, 34 Stat. 617.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(June 29, 1906, ch. 3607, § 3, 34 Stat. 617.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 3. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, Excavations, etc. authorized to permit examinations, excavations, and other gathering of objects of interest within said park by any person or persons whom he may deem properly qualified to conduct such examinations, excavations, or gatherings, subject to such rules and regulations as he may prescribe: Provided always, That the examinations, excavations, Proviso. Restriction. and gatherings are undertaken only for the benefit of some reputable museum, university, college, or other recognized scientific or educational institution, with a view to increasing the knowledge of such objects and aiding the general advancement of archaeological science.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Credits
(June 29, 1906, ch. 3607, § 3, 34 Stat. 617.)