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Title 16 — Conservation

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

§ 284a. Administration

Statutory text

The Secretary of the Interior shall administer the park in accordance with the provisions of section 284 of this title and the Act of (39 Stat. 535; 16 U.S.C. 1–4),1 as amended and supplemented, except that laws, rules, or regulations that are applicable solely to units of the National Park System that are designated as a “National Park” shall not apply to Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts.

Footnotes

  1. 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.

  1. Pub. L. 89–671 § 2 · 80 Stat. 950

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 284a

    Pub. L. 89–671, § 2, Oct. 15, 1966, 80 Stat. 951

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 89–671, § 2, Oct. 15, 1966, 80 Stat. 951

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 2. The Secretary of the Interior shall administer the park in accordance with the provisions of section 1 of this Act and the Act of August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535; 16 U.S.C. 1–4), as amended and supplemented.

  2. Pub. L. 107–219 § 1(a)(2) · 116 Stat. 1330

    Inserted · 16 U.S.C. § 284a

    Pub. L. 107–219 inserted before period at end: “, except that laws, rules, or regulations that are applicable solely to units of the National Park System that are designated as a ‘National Park’ shall not apply to Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 107–219 inserted before period at end: “, except that laws, rules, or regulations that are applicable solely to units of the National Park System that are designated as a ‘National Park’ shall not apply to Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (2) 16 USC 284a. in section 2, by inserting before the final period “, except that laws, rules, or regulations that are applicable solely to units of the National Park System that are designated as a ‘National Park’ shall not apply to Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts”; and

2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The Act of (39 Stat. 535; 16 U.S.C. 1–4), referred to in text, is act Aug. 25, 1916, ch. 408, 39 Stat. 535, known as the National Park Service Organic Act, which enacted sections 1, 2, 3, and 4 of this title and provisions set out as a note under section 100101 of Title 54, National Park Service and Related Programs. Sections 1 to 4 of the Act were repealed and restated as section 1865(a) of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure, and section 100101(a), chapter 1003, and sections 100751(a), 100752, 100753, and 102101 of Title 54 by Pub. L. 113–287, §§ 3, 4(a)(1), 7, , 128 Stat. 3094, 3260, 3272. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables. For disposition of former sections of this title, see Disposition Table preceding section 100101 of Title 54.

Amendments

2002—Pub. L. 107–219 inserted before period at end: “, except that laws, rules, or regulations that are applicable solely to units of the National Park System that are designated as a ‘National Park’ shall not apply to Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts”.

Credits

1966–2002 · 2 acts
  1. 1966Pub. L. 89–671, § 2, , 80 Stat. 951
  2. 2002Pub. L. 107–219, § 1(a)(2), , 116 Stat. 1330.
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(Pub. L. 89–671, § 2, , 80 Stat. 951; Pub. L. 107–219, § 1(a)(2), , 116 Stat. 1330.)

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