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Title 16 — Conservation

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

§ 441d. Examinations, excavations, and gathering of objects of interest within park

Statutory text

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to permit examinations, excavations, and gathering of objects of interest within said park by any person or persons whom he may deem properly qualified to conduct such examinations, excavations, or gatherings, subject to such rules and regulations as he may prescribe: Provided, That the examinations, excavations, and gatherings are undertaken only for the benefit of some reputable museum, university, college, or other recognized scientific or educational institution, with a view to increasing the knowledge of such objects and aiding the general advancement of geological and zoological science.

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. 70–693 § 5 · 45 Stat. 1553

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 441d

    Mar. 4, 1929, ch. 693, § 5, 45 Stat. 1555

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Mar. 4, 1929, ch. 693, § 5, 45 Stat. 1555

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 5. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, Examinations, excavations, etc., may be permitted. authorized to permit examinations, excavations, and gathering of objects of interest within said monument by any person or persons whom he may deem properly qualified to conduct such examinations, excavations, or gatherings, subject to such rules and regulations as he may prescribe: Provided, That the examinations, excavations, Proviso. Limited for benefit of educational institutions, etc. and gatherings are undertaken only for the benefit of some reputable museum, university, college, or other recognized scientific or educational institution, with a view to increasing the knowledge of such objects and aiding the general advancement of geological and zoological science.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

Word “park” substituted in text for “monument” pursuant to Pub. L. 95–625, § 611, which is classified to section 441e–1 of this title and which redesignated Badlands National Monument as Badlands National Park.

Credits

1929–1978 · 2 acts
  1. 1929Mar. 4, 1929, ch. 693, § 5, 45 Stat. 1555
  2. 1978Pub. L. 95–625, title VI, § 611, , 92 Stat. 3521.
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(Mar. 4, 1929, ch. 693, § 5, 45 Stat. 1555; Pub. L. 95–625, title VI, § 611, , 92 Stat. 3521.)

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