Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores
§ 459. Cape Hatteras National Seashore Recreational Area; conditional establishment; acquisition of lands
Statutory text
When title to all the lands, except those within the limits of established villages, within boundaries to be designated by the Secretary of the Interior within the area of approximately one hundred square miles on the islands of Chicamacomico, Ocracoke, Bodie, Roanoke, and Collington,1 and the waters and the lands beneath the waters adjacent thereto shall have been vested in the United States, said area shall be, and is, established, dedicated, and set apart as a national seashore recreational area for the benefit and enjoyment of the people and shall be known as the Cape Hatteras National Seashore Recreational Area: Provided, That the United States shall not purchase by appropriation of public moneys any lands within the aforesaid area, but such lands shall be secured by the United States only by public or private donation.
Footnotes
- 1 So in original. Probably should be “Colington,”.
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. 75–687 § 1 · 50 Stat. 669
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 459
Aug. 17, 1937, ch. 687, § 1, 50 Stat. 669
Source evidence
Code source credit
Aug. 17, 1937, ch. 687, § 1, 50 Stat. 669
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
Words “national seashore recreational area” substituted in text for “national seashore” pursuant to act .
Credits
1937–1940 · 2 acts
- 1937Aug. 17, 1937, ch. 687, § 1, 50 Stat. 669
- 1940June 29, 1940, ch. 459, § 1, 54 Stat. 702.
Show as published
(Aug. 17, 1937, ch. 687, § 1, 50 Stat. 669; June 29, 1940, ch. 459, § 1, 54 Stat. 702.)