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Title 16 — Conservation

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

§ 36a. Disposition of surplus elk

Statutory text

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized in his discretion, and under regulations to be prescribed by him, to sell or otherwise dispose of the surplus elk from the Yellowstone National Park herd, and all moneys received from the sale of any such surplus elk shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States as miscellaneous receipts.

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. 70–707 · 45 Stat. 717

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 36a

    (Mar. 4, 1929, ch. 707, 45 Stat. 1644.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Mar. 4, 1929, ch. 707, 45 Stat. 1644.)

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Credits

(Mar. 4, 1929, ch. 707, 45 Stat. 1644.)

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