Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores
§ 263. 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 the said historical park as determined and fixed under this subchapter, and donations of funds for the purchase and maintenance thereof: Provided, That he may acquire on behalf of the United States out of any donated funds, by purchase at prices deemed by him reasonable, or by condemnation under the provisions of section 3113 of title 40, such tracts of land within said historical park as may be necessary for the completion thereof. The title to any lands or interests in lands to be acquired pursuant to this subchapter shall be satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior.
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. 76–304 § 3 · 54 Stat. 262
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 263
(June 11, 1940, ch. 304, § 3, 54 Stat. 263.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(June 11, 1940, ch. 304, § 3, 54 Stat. 263.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 3. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby Acceptance of donations of land, etc., authorized. authorized to accept donations of land, interests in land, buildings, structures, and other property within the boundaries of the said historical park as determined and fixed hereunder, and donations of funds for the purchase and maintenance thereof: Provided, That he Proviso. Acquisition of certain lands from donated funds. 25 Stat. 357. 40 U. S. C. §§ 257, 258. may acquire on behalf of the United States out of any donated funds, by purchase at prices deemed by him reasonable, or by condemnation under the provisions of the Act of August 1, 1888, such tracts of land within said historical park as may be necessary for the completion thereof. The title to any lands or interests in lands to be acquired pursuant to this Act shall be satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior.
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 11, 1940, ch. 304, § 3, 54 Stat. 263.)