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Title 16 — Conservation

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

§ 33. Mortgages by lessees within the park

Statutory text

Any person, corporation, or company holding a lease within Yellowstone Park for the purposes described in section 32 of this title is authorized, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, to execute mortgages upon his or its rights, properties, and franchises, including his or its contract or contracts with the Secretary of the Interior, and such mortgages, together with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior may be filed for record in the office of the Secretary of the Interior, and when so recorded shall have all the effect of a public record. Any mortgage, lien, or encumbrance created under the provisions of this section shall be subject to the rights of the Government to compel the enforcement of the terms of the lease or contract of the mortgagor, and any purchaser under a foreclosure of such encumbrance shall take subject to all the conditions assumed by the original lessee or contractor.

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. 59–2570 · 34 Stat. 207

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 33

    (June 4, 1906, ch. 2570, 34 Stat. 207.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (June 4, 1906, ch. 2570, 34 Stat. 207.)

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Credits

(June 4, 1906, ch. 2570, 34 Stat. 207.)

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