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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 6 — Game and Bird Preserves; Protection

§ 691c. Acquisition of areas for Cheyenne Bottoms Refuge; title; rights-of-way, easements, and reservations

Statutory text

The Secretary of the Interior may do all things and make all expenditures necessary to secure the safe title in the United States to the areas which may be acquired under section 691 of this title, including purchase of options when deemed necessary by the Secretary of the Interior, and expenses incident to the location, examination, and survey of such areas and the acquisition of title thereto, but no payment shall be made for any such areas until the title thereto shall be satisfactory to the Attorney General. That the acquisition of such areas by the United States shall in no case be defeated because of rights-of-way, easements, and reservations which from their nature will in the opinion of the Secretary of the Interior in no manner interfere with the use of the areas so encumbered for the purpose of section 691a of this title.

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. 71–469 § 4 · 46 Stat. 579

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 691c

    June 12, 1930, ch. 469, § 4, 46 Stat. 579

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    June 12, 1930, ch. 469, § 4, 46 Stat. 579

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 4. That the Secretary of Agriculture may do all things and Secretary of Agriculture to carry out provisions. make all expenditures necessary to secure the safe title in the United States to the areas which may be acquired under this Act, including purchase of options when deemed necessary by the Secretary of Agriculture, and expenses incident to the location, examination, and survey of such areas and the acquisition of title thereto, but no payment shall be made for any such areas until the title thereto shall Title. be satisfactory to the Attorney General. That the acquisition of such areas by the United States shall in no case be defeated because of rights of way, easements, and reservations which from their nature Rights of way, etc., not interferred with. will in the opinion of the Secretary of Agriculture in no manner interfere with the use of the areas so encumbered for the purpose of this Act.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

Reorg. Plan No. II of 1939, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, transferred functions of Secretary of Agriculture relating to conservation of wildlife, game, and migratory birds to Secretary of the Interior.

Credits

1930–1939 · 2 acts
  1. 1930June 12, 1930, ch. 469, § 4, 46 Stat. 579
  2. 19391939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4(f), eff. , 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433.
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(June 12, 1930, ch. 469, § 4, 46 Stat. 579; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4(f), eff. , 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433.)

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