Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores
§ 410bbb. Findings and purpose
Statutory text
Findings
The Congress finds that:
Jazz is the United States’ most widely recognized indigenous music and art form. Congress previously recognized jazz in 1987 through Senate Concurrent Resolution 57 as a rare and valuable national treasure of international importance.
The city of New Orleans is widely recognized as the birthplace of jazz. In and around this city, cultural and musical elements blended to form the unique American music that is known as New Orleans jazz, which is an expression of the cultural diversity of the lower Mississippi Delta Region.
Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve was established to commemorate the cultural diversity of the lower Mississippi Delta Region including a range of cultural expressions like jazz.
Purpose
In furtherance of the need to recognize the value and importance of jazz, it is the purpose of this subchapter to establish a New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park to preserve the origins, early history, development and progression of jazz; provide visitors with opportunities to experience the sights, sounds, and places where jazz evolved; and implement innovative ways of establishing jazz educational partnerships that will help to ensure that jazz continues as a vital element of the culture of New Orleans and our Nation.
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.
New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park Act of 1994
Pub. L. 103–433 title XII § 1202 · 108 Stat. 4471
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 410bbb
(Pub. L. 103–433, title XII, § 1202, Oct. 31, 1994, 108 Stat. 4519.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 103–433, title XII, § 1202, Oct. 31, 1994, 108 Stat. 4519.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 1202. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE. (a) Findings.— The Congress finds that: (1) Jazz is the United States’ most widely recognized indigenous music and art form. Congress previously recognized jazz in 1987 through Senate Concurrent Resolution 57 as a rare and valuable national treasure of international importance. (2) The city of New Orleans is widely recognized as the birthplace of jazz. In and around this city, cultural and musical elements blended to form the unique American music that is known as New Orleans jazz, which is an expression of the cultural diversity of the lower Mississippi Delta Region. (3) Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve was established to commemorate the cultural diversity of the lower Mississippi Delta Region including a range of cultural expressions like jazz. (b) Purpose.— In furtherance of the need to recognize the value and importance of jazz, it is the purpose of this title to establish a New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park to preserve the origins, early history, development and progression of jazz; provide visitors with opportunities to experience the sights, sounds, and places where jazz evolved; and implement innovative ways of establishing jazz educational partnerships that will help to ensure that jazz continues as a vital element of the culture of New Orleans and our Nation.
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Editorial Notes
References in Text
Senate Concurrent Resolution 57, referred to in subsec. (a)(1), probably means H. Con. Res. 57, , 101 Stat. 2013, which is not classified to the Code.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Short Title
Pub. L. 103–433, title XII, § 1201, , 108 Stat. 4519, provided that: “This title [enacting this subchapter] may be cited as the ‘New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park Act of 1994’.”