Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores
§ 402. Existing claims, locations, or entries not affected; exchange of lands
Statutory text
Nothing herein contained shall affect any valid claim, location, or entry existing under the land laws of the United States prior to , whether for homestead, mineral, right-of-way, or any other purpose whatsoever, or shall affect the rights of any such claimant, locator, or entryman to the full use and enjoyment of his land. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to exchange, in his discretion, alienated lands in Bryce Canyon National Park for unappropriated and unreserved public lands of equal value and approximately equal area in the State of Utah outside of said park.
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. 68–305 § 3 · 43 Stat. 593
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 402
June 7, 1924, ch. 305, § 3, 43 Stat. 594
Source evidence
Code source credit
June 7, 1924, ch. 305, § 3, 43 Stat. 594Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 3. That nothing herein contained shall affect any valid existing claim, location, or entry under the land laws of the United States, whether for homestead, mineral, right of way, or any other purpose whatsoever, or shall affect the rights of any such claimant, Proviso. Exchange of alienated lands in, and Zion Park, for other lands. locator, or entryman to the full use and enjoyment of his land: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to exchange, in his discretion, alienated lands in this and Zion National Park for unappropriated and unreserved public lands of equal value and approximately equal area in the State of Utah outside of said parks.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
Herein, referred to in text, means act , which is classified to sections 346, 401 and 402 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.
The land laws of the United States, referred to in text, are classified generally to Title 43, Public Lands.
Codification
The last sentence of this section as originally enacted is expressly applicable also to Zion National Park. See section 346 of this title.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
“Utah National Park” changed to “Bryce Canyon National Park” by section 1 of act , classified to section 402a of this title.
Credits
1924–1928 · 2 acts
- 1924June 7, 1924, ch. 305, § 3, 43 Stat. 594
- 1928Feb. 25, 1928, ch. 102, § 1, 45 Stat. 147.
Show as published
(June 7, 1924, ch. 305, § 3, 43 Stat. 594; Feb. 25, 1928, ch. 102, § 1, 45 Stat. 147.)