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Title 16 — Conservation

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

§ 344. Establishment; maintenance

Statutory text

The Zion National Monument, in the county of Washington, State of Utah, is declared to be a national park and dedicated as such for the benefit and enjoyment of the people, under the name of the Zion National Park, under which name the aforesaid national park shall be maintained by allotment of funds heretofore or hereafter appropriated for the national monuments, until such time as an independent appropriation is made therefor by Congress.

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. 66–110 § 1 · 41 Stat. 356

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 344

    (Nov. 19, 1919, ch. 110, § 1, 41 Stat. 356.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Nov. 19, 1919, ch. 110, § 1, 41 Stat. 356.)

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Editorial Notes

Codification

Recitation in this section as originally enacted of the fact that Zion National Monument was established under act June 8, 1906, ch. 3060, 34 Stat. 225, by Presidential proclamations of , 36 Stat. 2498, and , 40 Stat. 1760, was omitted as historically obsolete.

Credits

(Nov. 19, 1919, ch. 110, § 1, 41 Stat. 356.)

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