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Title 16 — Conservation

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

§ 217a. Change in name of Abraham Lincoln National Historical Park

Statutory text

The Abraham Lincoln National Historical Park at Hodgenville, Kentucky, shall on and after , be known as Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site, and any law, regulation, document, or record of the United States in which such historical park is designated or referred to under the name of Abraham Lincoln National Historic Park shall be held to refer to such historical park under and by the name of Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site.

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. 86–231 · 73 Stat. 466

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 217a

    (Pub. L. 86–231, Sept. 8, 1959, 73 Stat. 466.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 86–231, Sept. 8, 1959, 73 Stat. 466.)

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Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site was renamed Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park by Pub. L. 111–11, title VII, § 7114(a), , 123 Stat. 1202.

Credits

(Pub. L. 86–231, , 73 Stat. 466.)

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