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.
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. 1555Enacted 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
- 1929Mar. 4, 1929, ch. 693, § 5, 45 Stat. 1555
- 1978Pub. L. 95–625, title VI, § 611, , 92 Stat. 3521.
Show as published
(Mar. 4, 1929, ch. 693, § 5, 45 Stat. 1555; Pub. L. 95–625, title VI, § 611, , 92 Stat. 3521.)