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

Summary

The Secretary of the Interior must run Hawaii National Park and make rules for its care and management. The rules must protect timber, birds, minerals, and natural wonders and keep them as natural as possible. The Secretary can lease up to 20 acres to one person, company, or corporation for up to 20 years to build visitor buildings. Leases cannot cover natural attractions or block public access to them, and they cannot give any special rights beyond the leased land and time. Lessees must follow all laws and park rules or they can lose the lease. Current leaseholders may trade in old leases for new ones with similar terms but with changes the Secretary sets. The Secretary may allow buildings for scientific work. All money from leases and other park income must be spent under the Secretary’s control for park care, protection, and for building roads and paths. No federal money will be approved for park improvement or maintenance until the United States receives perpetual easements and rights-of-way over private lands inside the park that the Secretary finds necessary to make the park reasonably accessible. When those easements are given, the Secretary must report that to Congress.

Title 16, §394

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Hawaii National Park shall be under the executive control of the Secretary of the Interior whose duty it shall be, as soon as practicable, to make and publish such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary or proper for the care and management of the same. Such regulations shall provide for the preservation from injury of all timber, birds, mineral deposits, and natural curiosities or wonders within said park, and their retention in their natural condition as nearly as possible. The Secretary may in his discretion grant leases for terms not exceeding twenty years, at such annual rental as he may determine, of parcels of land in said park of not more than twenty acres in all to any one person, corporation, or company for the erection and maintenance of buildings for the accommodation of visitors; but no such lease shall include any of the objects of curiosity or interest in said park or exclude the public from free and convenient approach thereto or convey, either expressly or by implication, any exclusive privilege within the park except upon the premises held thereunder and for the time granted therein; and every such lease shall require the lessee to observe and obey each and every provision in any Act of Congress and every rule, order, or regulation of the Secretary of the Interior concerning the use, care, management, or government of the park, or any object or property therein, under penalty of forfeiture of such lease. The Secretary may in his discretion grant to persons or corporations now holding leases of land in the park, upon the surrender thereof, new leases hereunder, upon the terms and stipulations contained in their present leases, with such modifications, restrictions, and reservations as he may prescribe. All of the proceeds of said leases and other revenues that may be derived from any source connected with the park shall be expended under the direction of the Secretary, in the management and protection of the same and the construction of roads and paths therein. The Secretary may also, in his discretion, permit the erection and maintenance of buildings in said park for scientific purposes: And provided further,11 So in original. The previous proviso was struck out by an amendment. That no appropriation shall be made for the improvement or maintenance of said park until proper conveyances shall be made to the United States of such perpetual easements and rights of way over private lands within the exterior boundaries of said park as the Secretary of the Interior shall find necessary to make said park reasonably accessible in all its parts, and said Secretary shall when such easements and rights of way have been conveyed to the United States report the same to Congress.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1924—Act June 5, 1924, ch. 263, struck out “Provided, That no appropriation for the maintenance, supervision, or improvement of said park in excess of $10,000 annually shall be made unless the same shall have first been expressly authorized by law” before “And provided further”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National ParkDesignation of portion of Hawaii National Park situated on island of Hawaii as Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, effective Sept. 22, 1961, see section 391d of this title. Haleakala̅ National ParkEstablishment of detached portion of Hawaii National Park lying on island of Maui as Haleakala̅ National Park, effective July 1, 1961, see section 396b of this title.

§394 Control; rules and regulations; leases; appropriations