Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores
§ 403i. Secretary of the Interior authorized to purchase necessary lands
Statutory text
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to acquire on behalf of the United States by purchase, at prices deemed by him to be reasonable, the lands needed to complete the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the State of Tennessee, in accordance with the provisions of sections 403 and 403a to 403c of this title; and the Secretary of the Interior is further authorized, when in his opinion unreasonable prices are asked for any of such lands, to acquire the same by condemnation under the provisions of section 3113 of title 40.
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. 75–27 § 5 · 52 Stat. 28
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 403i
(Feb. 12, 1938, ch. 27, § 5, 52 Stat. 29.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Feb. 12, 1938, ch. 27, § 5, 52 Stat. 29.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 5. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tenn. Acquisition of lands for completion of. acquire on behalf of the United States by purchase, at prices deemed by him to be reasonable, the lands needed to complete the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the State of Tennessee, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of Congress approved 44 Stat. 616. 16 U. S. C. § 403. May 22, 1926 (44 Stat. 616); and the Secretary of the Interior is further authorized, when in his opinion unreasonable prices are asked for any of such lands, to acquire the same by condemnation under 25 Stat. 357. 40 U. S. C. 257–258e. Appropriation authorized. Post, p. 1134. the provisions of the Act of August 1, 1888.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
“Section 3113 of title 40” substituted in text for “the Act of ” on authority of Pub. L. 107–217, § 5(c), , 116 Stat. 1303, the first section of which enacted Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works.
Credits
(Feb. 12, 1938, ch. 27, § 5, 52 Stat. 29.)