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Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73

§407n Cooperative agreements between Secretary of the Interior and City of Philadelphia; contents

Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 1— - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER LI— - INDEPENDENCE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK › § 407n

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of the Interior may make cooperative agreements with the City of Philadelphia and with the Carpenters’ Company of Philadelphia to help preserve and explain Independence Hall National Historic Site and Carpenters’ Hall. Those agreements must let the National Park Service enter public parts of the properties at reasonable times to lead visitors and interpret the sites, and they must say no changes to the buildings or grounds can be made unless the Secretary and the other party both agree.

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Title 16, §407n

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In furtherance of the general purposes of this subchapter as prescribed in section 407m of this title, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to enter into cooperative agreements with the city of Philadelphia to assist in the preservation and interpretation of the property known as the Independence Hall National Historic Site and with the Carpenters’ Company of Philadelphia to assist in the preservation and interpretation of Carpenters’ Hall, in connection with the Independence National Historical Park. Such agreements shall contain, but shall not be limited to, provisions that the Secretary of the Interior, through the National Park Service, shall have right of access at all reasonable times to all public portions of the property now within Independence Hall National Historic Site and to Carpenters’ Hall for the purpose of conducting visitors through such buildings and grounds and interpreting them to the public, that no changes or alterations shall be made in the property within the Independence Hall National Historic Site, including its buildings and grounds, or in Carpenters’ Hall, except by mutual agreement between the Secretary of the Interior and the other parties to the contracts.

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Transfer of Functions

of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 407n

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73