Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores
§ 441. Badlands National Park; establishment
Statutory text
When a quantum, satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior, of the privately owned lands lying within the area hereinafter described shall have been acquired and transferred to the United States for park purposes, without expense to the Federal Treasury, such areas are dedicated and set apart as a national park for the benefit and enjoyment of the people, under the name of the Badlands National Park: Provided, That the State of South Dakota shall have first constructed the highways hereinafter described.
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.
Pub. L. 70–693 § 1 · 45 Stat. 1553
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 441
Mar. 4, 1929, ch. 693, § 1, 45 Stat. 1553
Source evidence
Code source credit
Mar. 4, 1929, ch. 693, § 1, 45 Stat. 1553
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
References in Text
Hereinafter, referred to in text, means act which is classified to sections 441 to 441e of this title. For classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
Words “park” and “Park” substituted in text for “monument” and “Monument”, respectively, pursuant to Pub. L. 95–625, § 611, which is classified to section 441e–1 of this title and which redesignated the Badlands National Monument as the Badlands National Park.
Ben Reifel Visitor Center
Pub. L. 101–512, title I, , 104 Stat. 1923, provided in part that: “hereafter the Cedar Pass Visitor Center at Badlands National Park, South Dakota, shall be known as the Ben Reifel Visitor Center”.
Credits
1929–1978 · 2 acts
- 1929Mar. 4, 1929, ch. 693, § 1, 45 Stat. 1553
- 1978Pub. L. 95–625, title VI, § 611, , 92 Stat. 3521.
Show as published
(Mar. 4, 1929, ch. 693, § 1, 45 Stat. 1553; Pub. L. 95–625, title VI, § 611, , 92 Stat. 3521.)