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§370a Retention of Arlington Hotel site for park and landscape purposes

Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 1— - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER XL— - HOT SPRINGS NATIONAL PARK › § 370a

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The land in Hot Springs National Park at Central Avenue and Fountain Street where the hotel and bathhouse burned on April 5, 1923 must remain U.S. parkland when the lease ends March 6, 1932. The Interior Secretary must not lease it for a new hotel, bathhouse, or other building.

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Title 16, §370a

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The site within the Hot Springs National Park fronting on Central Avenue and on Fountain Street, leased by the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to the authority of Act of August 24, 1912 (chapter 355, 37 Statutes 459) to the Arlington Hotel Company, and occupied by the hotel and bathhouse building of said company until it burned on April 5, 1923, shall upon the expiration on March 6, 1932, of the existing lease therefor with the said Arlington Hotel Company, be kept, retained, and maintained by the United States for park and land­scaping purposes; and no new lease shall be granted by the Secretary of the Interior for the erection of another hotel, bathhouse, or other structure thereon.

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Act August 24, 1912 (chapter 355, 37 Statutes 459), as it related to lease of property at Hot Springs, Arkansas, referred to in text, was classified to section 370 of this title and was omitted from the Code as superseded by this section. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.

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16 U.S.C. § 370a

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Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73