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Title 16 — Conservation

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

§ 433h. Donation of property; acquisition of lands

Statutory text

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept donations of land, interests in land, buildings, structures, and other property within the boundaries of the said national monument as determined and fixed hereunder, and donations of funds for the purchase and maintenance thereof, the title and evidence of title to lands acquired to be satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, That he may acquire on behalf of the United States out of any donated funds, either by purchase at prices deemed by him reasonable, or by condemnation under the provisions of section 3113 of title 40, such tracts of land within the said national monument as may be necessary for the completion thereof.

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. 74–451 § 2 · 49 Stat. 538

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 433h

    (May 26, 1936, ch. 451, § 2, 49 Stat. 1373.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (May 26, 1936, ch. 451, § 2, 49 Stat. 1373.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 2. There is authorized to be appropriated the sum of $750 to carry out the purposes of this Act.

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

(May 26, 1936, ch. 451, § 2, 49 Stat. 1373.)

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