Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73

§202 Control; rules and regulations; fish and game; leases; automobiles; stock grazing

Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 1— - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER XXII— - LASSEN VOLCANIC NATIONAL PARK › § 202

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of the Interior must take full control of Lassen Volcanic National Park. He must, as soon as practical, write and publish rules to care for, protect, manage, and improve the park. The rules should let people enjoy the park while keeping timber, mineral deposits, and natural wonders as natural and unspoiled as possible. The Secretary must stop wanton killing or taking of fish and wildlife and may take other actions needed to carry out these goals under this law and sections 201 and 203. The Secretary may lease land in the park: up to 10 acres at one place to one person or company for up to 20 years for visitor buildings, and up to 1 acre for up to 20 years for summer homes or cottages for those who have or will build them. Leases can be renewed. No one gets exclusive rights except on leased land. Park rules must cover car use and reasonable grazing of livestock.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §202

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Lassen Volcanic National Park shall be under the exclusive control of the Secretary of the Interior, whose duty it shall be, as soon as practicable, to make and publish such rules and regulations not inconsistent with the laws of the United States as he may deem necessary or proper for the care, protection, management, and improvement of the same. Such regulations being primarily aimed at the freest use of the said park for recreation purposes by the public and for the preservation from injury or spoliation of all timber, mineral deposits, and natural curiosities or wonders within said park and their retention in their natural condition as far as practicable and for the preservation of the park in a state of nature so far as is consistent with the purposes of this section and section 201 and 203 of this title. He shall provide against the wanton destruction of the fish and game found within said park and against their capture or destruction for purposes of merchandise or profit, and generally shall be authorized to take all such measures as shall be necessary to fully carry out the objects and purposes of this section and section 201 and 203 of this title. Said Secretary may, in his discretion, execute leases to parcels of ground not exceeding ten acres in extent at any one place to any one person or persons or company for not to exceed twenty years when such ground is necessary for the erection of buildings for the accommodation of visitors and to parcels of ground not exceeding one acre in extent and for not to exceed twenty years to persons who have heretofore erected, or whom he may hereafter authorize to erect, summer homes or cottages. Such leases or privileges may be renewed or extended at the expiration of the terms thereof. No exclusive privilege, however, shall be granted within the park except upon the ground leased. The regulations governing the park shall include provisions for the use of automobiles therein and the reasonable grazing of stock.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 202

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73