Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 5A — Protection and Conservation of Wildlife
§ 666e. Administration of acquired lands
Statutory text
Any lands acquired by the Secretary of the Interior under the terms of this section and section 666d of this title, if located within or adjacent to an existing wildlife refuge or reservation, immediately shall become a part of such refuge or reservation and shall be administered under the laws and regulations applicable thereto, and, if not so located, may be administered as a migratory-waterfowl management area, refuge, reservation, or breeding ground in accordance with the provisions of the Act of (60 Stat. 1080), and Acts supplementary thereto.
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. 81–619 § 2 · 63 Stat. 708
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 666e
(Oct. 6, 1949, ch. 619, § 2, 63 Stat. 708.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Oct. 6, 1949, ch. 619, § 2, 63 Stat. 708.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 2. Any lands acquired by the Secretary of the Interior under the terms of this Act, if located within or adjacent to an existing wildlife refuge or reservation, immediately shall become a part of such refuge or reservation and shall be administered under the laws and regulations applicable thereto, and, if not so located, may be administered as a migratory-waterfowl management area, refuge, reservation, or breeding ground in accordance with the provisions of the 16 U. S. C. §§ 661–666c; Supp. II, § 661 et seq. Act of August 14, 1946 (60 Stat. 1080), and Acts supplementary thereto.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
The Act of , referred to in text, is act Aug. 14, 1946, ch. 965, 60 Stat. 1080, which amended act Mar. 10, 1934, ch. 55, by generally amending sections 1 to 6, which are classified to sections 661 to 665 and 666 of this title, and by adding sections 7 to 9, which are classified to sections 666a to 666c of this title. Subsequent acts added sections 5A and 10 of act , which are classified to sections 665a and 666c–1 of this title, respectively.
Credits
(Oct. 6, 1949, ch. 619, § 2, 63 Stat. 708.)