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Title 16 — Conservation

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

§ 80c. Motor-vehicle licenses for Sequoia National Park as applicable; limitation of privileges within park

Statutory text

Any motor-vehicle license issued for Sequoia National Park shall be applicable to Kings Canyon National Park, and vice versa: Provided, That in order to insure the permanent preservation of the wilderness character of the Kings Canyon National Park the Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion, limit the character and number of privileges that he may grant within the Kings Canyon National Park.

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 § 4 · 54 Stat. 41

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 80c

    Mar. 4, 1940, ch. 40, § 4, 54 Stat. 44

    Source evidence

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

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 4. That any motor-vehicle license issued for Sequoia National Park shall be applicable to Kings Canyon National Park, and vice versa: Proviso. Privilege limitation. Provided, That in order to insure the permanent preservation of the wilderness character of the Kings Canyon National Park the Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion, limit the character and number of privileges that he may grant within the Kings Canyon National Park. No privileges shall be granted for a period in excess of five years.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1950—Act , struck out last sentence which restricted concessionaires to a five-year term.

Credits

1940–1950 · 2 acts
  1. 1940Mar. 4, 1940, ch. 40, § 4, 54 Stat. 44
  2. 1950Aug. 17, 1950, ch. 730, 64 Stat. 458.
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(Mar. 4, 1940, ch. 40, § 4, 54 Stat. 44; Aug. 17, 1950, ch. 730, 64 Stat. 458.)

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