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§409e Administration, protection, and development

Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 1— - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER LIII— - MORRISTOWN NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK › § 409e

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The National Park Service must manage, protect, and develop the park under the Interior Secretary and the Act of Aug. 25, 1916 (16 U.S.C. 1–4).

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Title 16, §409e

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The administration, protection, and development of aforesaid national historical park shall be exercised under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior by the National Park Service, subject to the provisions of the Act of August 25, 1916, entitled “An Act to establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes,” as amended (U.S.C., title 16, secs. 1–4).11 See References in Text note below.

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References in Text

The Act of August 25, 1916, entitled “An Act to establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes,” as amended (U.S.C., title 16, secs. 1–4), 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 Sections 1 to 4 of the Act were repealed and restated as section 1865(a) of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure, and section 100101(a), chapter 1003, and section 100751(a), 100752, 100753, and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. Codification The proviso formerly at end of this section limited appropriations for fiscal years 1934, 1935, and 1936, to $7,500.

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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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16 U.S.C. § 409e

Title 16Conservation

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Apr 6, 2026

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