Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores
§ 396. Additional lands; acceptance of title
Statutory text
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion and upon submission of evidence of satisfactory title to him, to accept, on behalf of the United States, title to the lands referred to in section 391b of this title as may be deemed by him necessary or desirable for national-park purposes.
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. 75–530 § 2 · 52 Stat. 781
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 396
(June 20, 1938, ch. 530, § 2, 52 Stat. 784.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(June 20, 1938, ch. 530, § 2, 52 Stat. 784.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 2. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, in his discretion and upon submission of evidence of satisfactory title to him, to accept, on behalf of the United States, title to the lands referred to in the previous section hereof as may be deemed by him necessary or desirable for national-park purposes.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park
Designation of portion of Hawaii National Park situated on island of Hawaii as Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, effective , see section 391d of this title.
Credits
(June 20, 1938, ch. 530, § 2, 52 Stat. 784.)