Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores
§ 45c. Prior claims, locations, and entries; permits for use of natural resources
Statutory text
Nothing herein contained shall affect any valid existing claim, location, or entry established prior to , under the land laws of the United States, whether for homestead, mineral, right-of-way, or any other purpose whatsoever, or shall affect the rights of any such claimant, locator, or entryman to the full use and enjoyment of his land: Provided, That under rules and regulations to be prescribed by him the Secretary of the Interior may issue permits to any bona fide claimant, entryman, landowner, or lessee of land within the boundaries herein established to secure timber for use on and for the improvement of his land; and he shall also have authority to issue, under rules and regulations to be prescribed by him, grazing permits and authorize the grazing of livestock on the lands within said park at fees not to exceed those charged by the Forest Service on adjacent areas, so long as such timber cutting and grazing are not detrimental to the primary purpose for which such park is created: Provided, That no permit, license, lease, or authorization for dams, conduits, reservoirs, power houses, transmission lines, or other works for storage or carriage of water, or for the development, transmission, or utilization of power within the limits of said park as constituted by said sections, shall be granted or made without specific authority of Congress.
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. 69–744 § 3 · 44 Stat. 818
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 45c
(July 3, 1926, ch. 744, § 3, 44 Stat. 820.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(July 3, 1926, ch. 744, § 3, 44 Stat. 820.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
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1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
Herein, referred to in text, means act , which is classified to sections 45a, 45b to 45e, and 688 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.
Credits
(July 3, 1926, ch. 744, § 3, 44 Stat. 820.)