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Title 16 — Conservation

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

§ 450p. Acquisition of property; donations

Statutory text

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to acquire on behalf of the United States out of any funds allotted and made available for this project by proper authority or 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, or to accept by donation, such land, interest in land, and/or buildings, structures, and other property within the boundaries of said national historic site as determined and fixed hereunder, and he is further authorized to accept donations of funds for the purchase and/or maintenance 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. 74–801 § 2 · 49 Stat. 958

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 450p

    Aug. 29, 1935, ch. 801, § 2, 49 Stat. 958

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Aug. 29, 1935, ch. 801, § 2, 49 Stat. 958

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to acquire on behalf of the United States out of any funds allotted and made available for this project by proper authority or out of any donated funds, by purchase at prices deemed by him reasonable, or by condemnation under the provisions of the Act of Vol. 25, p. 357; U. S. C., p. 1785. August 1, 1888 (25 Stat. 357), or to accept by donation, such land, interest in land, and/or buildings, structures, and other property within the boundaries of said national monument as determined and fixed hereunder, and he is further authorized to accept donations of funds for the purchase and/or maintenance 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 450o to 450q 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 (25 Stat. 357)” 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.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

“Historic site” substituted in text for “monument” on authority of Pub. L. 88–197, which redesignated Andrew Johnson National Monument as Andrew Johnson National Historic Site.

Credits

1935–1963 · 2 acts
  1. 1935Aug. 29, 1935, ch. 801, § 2, 49 Stat. 958
  2. 1963Pub. L. 88–197, § 1, , 77 Stat. 349.
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(Aug. 29, 1935, ch. 801, § 2, 49 Stat. 958; Pub. L. 88–197, § 1, , 77 Stat. 349.)

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