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Title 16 — Conservation

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

§ 429a. Jurisdiction and control; authorization of annual appropriation

Statutory text

Each parcel of land acquired under section 429 of this title shall be under the jurisdiction and control of the Secretary of the Interior, and there is authorized to be appropriated for the maintenance of each such parcel of land, fence, approach, and marker a sum not to exceed $250 per annum.

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. 70–289 § 3 · 45 Stat. 387

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 429a

    Feb. 21, 1929, ch. 289, § 3, 45 Stat. 1254

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Feb. 21, 1929, ch. 289, § 3, 45 Stat. 1254

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Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

“Secretary of the Interior” substituted in text for “Secretary of War” pursuant to Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§ 1, 2; Ex. Ord. No. 6166, § 2; and Ex. Ord. No. 6228, § 1. See below.

Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, eff. , 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, transferred the functions of other officers, employees, and agencies of the Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to the Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate.

Ex. Ord. No. 6166, § 2, and Ex. Ord. No. 6228, § 1, set out as a note under section 901 of Title 5, transferred the administrative functions of Brices Cross Roads and Tupelo battlefield sites to the Department of the Interior.

Credits

1929–1933 · 3 acts
  1. 1929Feb. 21, 1929, ch. 289, § 3, 45 Stat. 1254
  2. 1933Ex. Ord. No. 6166, § 2,
  3. 1933Ex. Ord. No. 6228, § 1, .
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(Feb. 21, 1929, ch. 289, § 3, 45 Stat. 1254; Ex. Ord. No. 6166, § 2, ; Ex. Ord. No. 6228, § 1, .)

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