Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores
§ 193. Claims and rights under land laws not affected; rights-of-way for irrigation and other purposes
Statutory text
Nothing herein contained shall affect any valid existing claim, location, or entry under the land laws of the United States, whether for homestead, mineral, right of way, or any other purpose whatsoever, or shall affect the rights of any such claimant, locator, or entryman to the full use and enjoyment of his land. Whenever consistent with the primary purposes of the park the Act of February fifteenth, nineteen hundred and one,1 applicable to the location of rights of way in certain national parks and the national forests for irrigation and other purposes, shall be and remain applicable to the lands included within the park.
Footnotes
- 1 See References in Text note below.
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. 63–19 § 2 · 38 Stat. 203
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 193
Jan. 26, 1915, ch. 19, § 2, 38 Stat. 800
Source evidence
Code source credit
Jan. 26, 1915, ch. 19, § 2, 38 Stat. 800Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Interior shall cause all plats, maps, records, and papers in the Carson City land office, which relate to or form a necessary part of the records of the lands embraced in the district hereby created, to be transferred to the Elko land district.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
Herein, referred to in text, means act , which is classified to sections 191 and 193 to 195a of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.
The Act of February fifteenth, nineteen hundred and one, referred to in text, is act Feb. 15, 1901, ch. 372, 31 Stat. 790, which is classified to section 959 of Title 43, Public Lands. The Act, insofar as it related to National Park System units, was repealed and restated as section 100902(a) of Title 54, National Park Service and Related Programs, by Pub. L. 113–287, §§ 3, 7, , 128 Stat. 3094, 3272.
Amendments
1931—Act , repealed provision which authorized granting of easements or rights of way for steam, electric, or similar transportation upon or across the park.
Credits
1915–1931 · 2 acts
- 1915Jan. 26, 1915, ch. 19, § 2, 38 Stat. 800
- 1931Jan. 26, 1931, ch. 47, § 7, 46 Stat. 1044.
Show as published
(Jan. 26, 1915, ch. 19, § 2, 38 Stat. 800; Jan. 26, 1931, ch. 47, § 7, 46 Stat. 1044.)