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Title 16 — Conservation

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

§ 403d. Lease of lands within Shenandoah National Park and Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Statutory text

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to lease lands within the Shenandoah National Park and Great Smoky Mountains National Park for periods not exceeding two years, upon such conditions as he may in his discretion deem proper, to persons and educational or religious institutions occupying same or who had or claim to have had some interest in the title to the same prior to the establishment of the 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.

  1. Pub. L. 70–59 § 2 · 45 Stat. 109

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 403d

    (Feb. 16, 1928, ch. 59, § 2, 45 Stat. 109.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Feb. 16, 1928, ch. 59, § 2, 45 Stat. 109.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to Leases authorized to prior occupants of lands in Shenandoah and Great Smoky Mountains Parks. lease lands within the Shenandoah National Park and Great Smoky Mountains National Park for periods not exceeding two years, upon such conditions as he may in his discretion deem proper, to persons and educational or religious institutions occupying same or who had or claim to have had some interest in the title to the same prior to the establishment of the park.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Feb. 16, 1928, ch. 59, § 2, 45 Stat. 109.)

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