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Title 16 — Conservation

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

§ 438. Repairs and improvements; how made

Statutory text

Any and all repairs, improvements, changes, and alterations in the grounds, buildings, and other appurtenances to the reservation shall be made only according to detailed plans which shall be approved by the Secretary of the Interior, and all such repairs, improvements, or alterations shall be made at the expense of the United States, and all such improvements, together with the reservation itself, shall become and remain permanently the property of the United States.

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. 63–100 · 38 Stat. 382

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 438

    May 26, 1914, ch. 100, 38 Stat. 382

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    May 26, 1914, ch. 100, 38 Stat. 382

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Editorial Notes

Codification

This section and sections 437, 439, and 440 of this title were derived from act . See Codification note set out under section 437 of this title.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Termination of War and Emergencies

Termination of state of war and national emergencies, see note set out under section 437 of this title.

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

Transfer of administrative functions of park, see note set out under section 437 of this title.

Credits

1914–1933 · 4 acts
  1. 1914May 26, 1914, ch. 100, 38 Stat. 382
  2. 1925Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 425, 43 Stat. 1109
  3. 1933Ex. Ord. No. 6166, § 2,
  4. 1933Ex. Ord. No. 6228, § 1, .
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(May 26, 1914, ch. 100, 38 Stat. 382; Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 425, 43 Stat. 1109; Ex. Ord. No. 6166, § 2, ; Ex. Ord. No. 6228, § 1, .)

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