Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores
§ 459a. Acceptance of donations; acquisition of property by purchase and condemnation
Statutory text
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept donations of land, interests in land, buildings, structures, and other property, within the boundaries of said national seashore recreational area as determined and fixed hereunder and donations of funds for the purchase and 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 under any donated funds by purchase, when purchasable at prices deemed by him reasonable, otherwise by condemnation under the provisions of section 3113 of title 40, such tracts of land within the said national seashore recreational area 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.
Pub. L. 75–687 § 2 · 50 Stat. 669
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 459a
Aug. 17, 1937, ch. 687, § 2, 50 Stat. 669
Source evidence
Code source credit
Aug. 17, 1937, ch. 687, § 2, 50 Stat. 669Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 2. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to Acceptance of donations, etc. accept donations of land, interests in land, buildings, structures, and other property, within the boundaries of said national seashore as determined and fixed hereunder and donations of funds for the purchase and 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 Proviso. Acquisition of land. 25 Stat. 357. 40 U. S. C. § 257. under any donated funds by purchase, when purchasable at prices deemed by him reasonable, otherwise by condemnation under the provisions of the Act of August 1, 1888, such tracts of land within the said national seashore as may be necessary for the completion thereof.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
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.
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, § 2, 50 Stat. 669
- 1940June 29, 1940, ch. 459, § 1, 54 Stat. 702.
Show as published
(Aug. 17, 1937, ch. 687, § 2, 50 Stat. 669; June 29, 1940, ch. 459, § 1, 54 Stat. 702.)