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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores

§ 115. Leases and permits; prehistoric ruins not included

Statutory text

The Secretary of the Interior may, upon terms and conditions to be fixed by him, grant leases and permits for the use of the land or development of the resources thereof, in the Mesa Verde National Park, and the funds derived therefrom shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States. Such leases or grants shall not include any of the prehistoric ruins in said park or exclude the public from free or convenient access thereto.

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.

  1. Pub. L. 61–385 § 1 · 39 Stat. 1910

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 115

    (June 25, 1910, ch. 385, § 1, 36 Stat. 796.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (June 25, 1910, ch. 385, § 1, 36 Stat. 796.)

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Credits

(June 25, 1910, ch. 385, § 1, 36 Stat. 796.)

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