Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores
§ 214. Rules and regulations
Statutory text
Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park shall be under the control of the National Park Service and administered under such regulations not inconsistent with law as it may from time to time prescribe.
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. 64–247 § 4 · 39 Stat. 385
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 214
July 17, 1916, ch. 247, § 4, 39 Stat. 386
Source evidence
Code source credit
July 17, 1916, ch. 247, § 4, 39 Stat. 386Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 4. That upon the passage of this Act and the vesting of the title to the property accepted thereunder in the United States, it shall be under the control of the Secretary of War and administered under such regulations not inconsistent with law as he may from time to time prescribe.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
As originally enacted, this section read as follows: “Upon the passage of this Act and the vesting of the title to the property accepted thereunder in the United States, it shall be under the control of the Secretary of War and administered under such regulations not inconsistent with law as he may from time to time prescribe.”
Sections 211 and 212 of this title, refer to the lands as a national park or reservation.
Prefixes making the provisions of this section effective, upon the passage of this Act and the vesting of the title to the property accepted, have been omitted as temporary.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
“Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park” substituted for “Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site” pursuant to Pub. L. 111–11.
“Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site” substituted for “Abraham Lincoln National Historical Park” pursuant to Pub. L. 86–231.
“Abraham Lincoln National Historical Park” substituted for “Abraham Lincoln National Park” pursuant to act .
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
All national parks, national monuments, and national cemeteries consolidated in an office of National Parks, Buildings and Reservations in Department of the Interior, at head of which should be a Director of National Parks, Buildings and Reservations, and cemeteries and parks of War Department transferred to Department of the Interior by Executive Order 6166, § 2, as amended by Executive Order 6228, § 1, set out in a note under section 901 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. This service designated the National Park Service in Department of the Interior by act .
For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, eff. , 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5.
Credits
1916–2009 · 7 acts
- 1916July 17, 1916, ch. 247, § 4, 39 Stat. 386
- 1933Ex. Ord. No. 6166, § 2,
- 1933Ex. Ord. No. 6228, § 1,
- 1934Mar. 2, 1934, ch. 38, § 1, 48 Stat. 389
- 1939Aug. 11, 1939, ch. 686, 53 Stat. 1405
- 1959Pub. L. 86–231, , 73 Stat. 466
- 2009Pub. L. 111–11, title VII, § 7114(b), , 123 Stat. 1202.
Show as published
(July 17, 1916, ch. 247, § 4, 39 Stat. 386; Ex. Ord. No. 6166, § 2, ; Ex. Ord. No. 6228, § 1, ; Mar. 2, 1934, ch. 38, § 1, 48 Stat. 389; Aug. 11, 1939, ch. 686, 53 Stat. 1405; Pub. L. 86–231, , 73 Stat. 466; Pub. L. 111–11, title VII, § 7114(b), , 123 Stat. 1202.)