§364 — Title 16 Conservation | U.S. Code

Summary

Before issuing a lease for a bathhouse or a bathhouse site in Hot Springs National Park, or a contract to use hot water for bathhouses outside the park, the Secretary of the Interior can investigate the people or company applying. He may check whether they own or are connected to any other bathhouse, belong to any group or combination that controls other bathhouses, or are officers, members, or stockholders in related companies. To get the facts, he can require people and papers, give oaths, and demand sworn statements from applicants. Anyone who lies under oath is guilty of perjury and faces federal penalties. If the Secretary finds such connections, discovers them later, or decides it is better for park management or the public, he can refuse, cancel, or forfeit the lease, license, permit, or other privilege.

Title 16, §364

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The Secretary of the Interior, before executing any lease to bathhouses or bathhouse sites in the park or contracts for the use of hot water for bathhouses outside said park, may make due investigation to ascertain whether the person, persons, or corporation applying for such lease or contract are not, directly or indirectly, interested in any manner whatever in any other bathhouse, lease, interest, or privilege at or near Hot Springs, Arkansas, or whether he or they belong to any pool, combination, or association so interested, or whether he or they are members or stockholders in any corporation so interested, or, if a corporation, whether its members or any of them are members or stockholders of any other corporation or association interested in any other bathhouse, lease, interest, or privilege as aforesaid, and in order to arrive at the facts in any such case he is authorized to send for persons and papers, administer oaths to witnesses, and require affidavits from applicants; and any such person making a false oath or affidavit in the premises shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and, upon conviction, subject to all the pains and penalties of perjury under the statutes of the United States; and whenever, either at the time of leasing or other time it appears to the satisfaction of the said Secretary that such interest in other bathhouse, lease, interest, or privilege exists, or at any time any pool or combination exists between any two or more bathhouses or he deems it for the best interests of the management of the Hot Springs National Park and waters, or for the public interest, he may refuse such lease, license, permit, or other privilege, or forfeit any lease or privilege wherein the parties interested have become otherwise interested as aforesaid.

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Change of Name

“Hot Springs National Park” substituted in text for “Hot Springs Reservation” pursuant to act Mar. 4, 1921.

§364 Investigation of applicant for lease or contract

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Title 16, §364

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