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Title 16 — Conservation

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

§ 423g. Rules and regulations

Statutory text

The Secretary of the Interior, subject to the approval of the President, shall have the power to make and shall make all needful rules and regulations for the care of the battlefield, and for the establishment and marking of lines of battle and other historical features of the battlefield.

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. 69–746 § 8 · 44 Stat. 822

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 423g

    July 3, 1926, ch. 746, § 8, 44 Stat. 823

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    July 3, 1926, ch. 746, § 8, 44 Stat. 823

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 8. The Secretary of War, subject to the approval of the Rules, etc., to be prescribed. President, shall have the power to make and shall make all needful rules and regulations for the care of the park, and for the establishment and marking of lines of battle and other historical features of the park.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

“Battlefield” substituted in text for “park” in view of redesignation of Petersburg National Military Park as Petersburg National Military Battlefield by Pub. L. 87–603. See section 423h–1 of this title.

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

Transfer of administrative functions of park, see note set out under section 423 of this title.

Credits

1926–1962 · 4 acts
  1. 1926July 3, 1926, ch. 746, § 8, 44 Stat. 823
  2. 1933Ex. Ord. No. 6166, § 2,
  3. 1933Ex. Ord. No. 6228, § 1,
  4. 1962Pub. L. 87–603, § 1, , 76 Stat. 403.
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(July 3, 1926, ch. 746, § 8, 44 Stat. 823; Ex. Ord. No. 6166, § 2, ; Ex. Ord. No. 6228, § 1, ; Pub. L. 87–603, § 1, , 76 Stat. 403.)

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