Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73

§40a Educational facilities for dependents of employees; payments to school districts; limitation on amount

Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 1— - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER V— - YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK › § 40a

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of the Interior can set rules so money from Yellowstone National Park visitor revenues can be paid, in advance or later, to the school district or districts that serve the park. The money reimburses schools for buildings, services, and where needed school transportation for children of park workers who live on or near federal park land that is tax-exempt and where the United States does not make payments in lieu of taxes. Payments for any school year cannot be more than the share of the schools’ operating and maintenance costs that matches the share of average daily attendance made up by those park-worker children.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §40a

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Under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, payments may be made, as provided in sections 40a to 40c of this title, in advance or otherwise, from any revenues received by the United States from visitors to Yellowstone National Park, to the appropriate school district or districts serving that park, as reimbursement for educational facilities (including, where appropriate, transportation to and from school) furnished by the said district or districts to pupils who are dependents of persons engaged in the administration, operation, and maintenance of the park, and living at or near the park upon real property of the United States not subject to taxation by the State or local agencies and upon which payments in lieu of taxes are not made by the United States: Provided, That the payments for any school year for the aforesaid purpose shall not exceed that part of the cost of operating and maintaining such facilities which the number of pupils, in average daily attendance during that year, bears to the whole number of pupils in average daily attendance at those schools for that year.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 40a

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73