Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73
§426g Occupation of lands by former owners
Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 1— - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER LX— - NATIONAL MILITARY PARKS › § 426g
Summary
The Secretary of the Interior can make small agreements letting current landowners stay on and farm their land. They must keep existing buildings, roads, and the outlines of fields and forests, follow tree-and-underbrush rules the Secretary sets, and help protect any tablets or monuments placed there.
Full Legal Text
Title 16, §426g
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The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to enter into agreements, upon such nominal terms as he may prescribe, with such present owners of the land as may desire to remain upon it, to occupy and cultivate their present holdings, upon condition that they will preserve the present buildings and roads, and the present outlines of field and forest, and that they will only cut trees or underbrush under such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe, and that they will assist in caring for and protecting all tablets, monuments, or such other artificial works as may from time to time be erected by proper authority.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
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Transfer of Functions
Transfer of administrative functions of park, see note set out under section 426 of this title.
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Citation
16 U.S.C. § 426g
Title 16 — Conservation
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73