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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores

§ 80b. Administration for public recreational purposes

Statutory text

The National Park Service shall, under the rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, administer for public recreational purposes the lands withdrawn.

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. 76–40 § 3 · 54 Stat. 41

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 80b

    (Mar. 4, 1940, ch. 40, § 3, 54 Stat. 44.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Mar. 4, 1940, ch. 40, § 3, 54 Stat. 44.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 3. That the National Park Service shall, under the rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, administer for public recreational purposes the lands withdrawn.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, eff. , 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

Credits

(Mar. 4, 1940, ch. 40, § 3, 54 Stat. 44.)

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