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Title 16 — Conservation

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

§ 450m. Acceptance of donations of lands and funds; acquisition of land

Statutory text

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept donations of land, interests in land and/or buildings, structures, and other property within the boundaries of said national monument as determined and fixed hereunder, and donations of funds for the purchase and/or 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, 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. 74–592 § 2 · 49 Stat. 665

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 450m

    (Aug. 21, 1935, ch. 592, § 2, 49 Stat. 666.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Aug. 21, 1935, ch. 592, § 2, 49 Stat. 666.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to accept donations of land, interests in land and/or buildings, structures, and other property within the boundaries of said national monument as determined and fixed hereunder, and donations of funds for the purchase and/or maintenance thereof, the title and evidence of title to lands acquired to be satisfactory to Proviso. Acquisition of land. Vol. 25, p. 357; U. S. C., p. 1785. the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, That he may acquire on behalf of the United States out of any donated funds, by purchase at prices deemed by him reasonable, or by condemnation under the provisions of the Act of August 1, 1888, such tracts of land within the said national monument as may be necessary for the completion thereof.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

References in Text

Hereunder, referred to in text, means act , which is classified to sections 450l to 450n of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.

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

(Aug. 21, 1935, ch. 592, § 2, 49 Stat. 666.)

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