Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores
§ 159a. Acceptance of donations
Statutory text
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept donations of land, interests in land, buildings, structures, and other property within the boundaries of said historical park as determined and fixed hereunder and donations of funds for the purchase or maintenance thereof, the title and evidence of title to lands acquired to be satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, That he may acquire on behalf of the United States, out of any donated funds, by purchase when purchasable at prices deemed by him reasonable, otherwise by condemnation under the provisions of section 3113 of title 40, such tracts of land within the said historical park as may be necessary for the completion thereof.
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. 75–316 § 2 · 52 Stat. 608
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 159a
(June 1, 1938, ch. 316, § 2, 52 Stat. 609.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(June 1, 1938, ch. 316, § 2, 52 Stat. 609.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, Acceptance of donations, etc. authorized to accept donations of land, interests in land, buildings, structures, and other property within the boundaries of said historical park as determined and fixed hereunder and donations of funds for the purchase or maintenance thereof, the title and evidence of title to lands acquired to be satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, That he may acquire on behalf of the Proviso. Purchase of lands from donated funds. United States, out of any donated funds, by purchase when purchasable at prices deemed by him reasonable, otherwise by condemnation under the provisions of the Act of August 1, 1888, such tracts 25 Stat. 357. 40 U. S. C. § 257. of land within the said historical park as may be necessary for the completion thereof.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
“Section 3113 of title 40” substituted in text for “the Act of ” on authority of Pub. L. 107–217, § 5(c), , 116 Stat. 1303, the first section of which enacted Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works.
Credits
(June 1, 1938, ch. 316, § 2, 52 Stat. 609.)