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§355a Laws applicable to added lands

Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 1— - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER XXXIX— - DENALI NATIONAL PARK › § 355a

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Summary

The August 25, 1916 Act (National Park Service) and the February 26, 1917 Act (Mount McKinley National Park), plus later changes to those laws, apply to lands added by section 355.

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Title 16, §355a

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The provisions of the Act of August 25, 1916, entitled “An Act to establish a national park service, and for other purposes,” 11 See References in Text note below. and the Act of February 26, 1917, entitled “An Act to establish the Mount McKinley National Park, in the Territory of Alaska,” [16 U.S.C. 347 et seq.] together with all Acts supplementary to and amendatory of said Acts are made applicable to and extended over the lands added to the park by section 355 of this title.

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The Act of
August 25, 1916, entitled “An Act to establish a national park service, and for other purposes,”, referred to in text, is act Aug. 25, 1916, ch. 408, 39 Stat. 535, known as the National Park Service Organic Act, which enacted section 1, 2, 3, and 4 of this title and provisions set out as a note under section 100101 of Title 54, National Park Service and Related Programs. Sections 1 to 4 of the Act were repealed and restated as section 1865(a) of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure, and section 100101(a), chapter 1003, and section 100751(a), 100752, 100753, and 102101 of Title 54 by Pub. L. 113–287, §§ 3, 4(a)(1), 7, Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3094, 3260, 3272. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables. For disposition of former sections of this title, see Disposition Table preceding section 100101 of Title 54. The Act of
February 26, 1917, entitled “An Act to establish the Mount McKinley National Park, in the Territory of Alaska,”, referred to in text, is act Feb. 26, 1917, ch. 121, 39 Stat. 938, which is classified generally to this subchapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables. section 355 of this title, referred to in text, was in the original referred to by the word “hereby”, meaning section 1 of act Mar. 19, 1932, ch. 88, 47 Stat. 68, which is classified to section 355 of this title. Codification Section was not enacted as part of act Feb. 26, 1917, ch. 121, 39 Stat. 938, which comprises this subchapter.

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16 U.S.C. § 355a

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Apr 6, 2026

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