Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores
§ 408a. Acceptance of title to lands
Statutory text
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion and upon submission of evidence of title satisfactory to him, to accept on behalf of the United States title to any lands located on said islands offered to the United States, without cost, 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. 71–448 § 2 · 46 Stat. 1514
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 408a
(Mar. 3, 1931, ch. 448, § 2, 46 Stat. 1514.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Mar. 3, 1931, ch. 448, § 2, 46 Stat. 1514.)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 title satisfactory to him, to accept on behalf of the United States title to any lands located on said islands offered to the United States, without cost, as may be deemed by him necessary or desirable for national-park purposes.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Credits
(Mar. 3, 1931, ch. 448, § 2, 46 Stat. 1514.)