Title 54National Park Service and Related ProgramsRelease 119-73

§305101 Definitions

Title 54 › Subtitle Subtitle III— - National Preservation Programs › Chapter CHAPTER 3051— - HISTORIC LIGHT STATION PRESERVATION › § 305101

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Defines key terms. Administrator means the Administrator of General Services. Eligible entity means a federal department or agency, or a state/local government or nonprofit, educational, or community development organization that agrees to the conditions in section 305104, records them with the deed, and can pay to maintain the station. Federal aid to navigation are U.S.-operated devices outside a vessel or aircraft that help navigation or warn danger and include lights and related equipment. Historic light station includes the tower, keeper’s house, outbuildings, piers, walkways, land, and related property.

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Title 54, §305101

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In this chapter:
(1)The term “Administrator” means the Administrator of General Services.
(2)The term “eligible entity” means—
(A)any department or agency of the Federal Government; or
(B)any department or agency of the State in which a historic light station is located, the local government of the community in which a historic light station is located, a nonprofit corporation, an educational agency, or a community development organization that—
(i)has agreed to comply with the conditions set forth in section 305104 of this title and to have the conditions recorded with the deed of title to the historic light station; and
(ii)is financially able to maintain the historic light station in accordance with the conditions set forth in section 305104 of this title.
(3)(A)The term “Federal aid to navigation” means any device, operated and maintained by the United States, external to a vessel or aircraft, intended to assist a navigator to determine position or safe course, or to warn of dangers or obstructions to navigation.
(B)The term “Federal aid to navigation” includes a light, lens, lantern, antenna, sound signal, camera, sensor, piece of electronic navigation equipment, power source, or other piece of equipment associated with a device described in subparagraph (A).
(4)The term “historic light station” includes the light tower, lighthouse, keeper’s dwelling, garages, storage sheds, oil house, fog signal building, boat house, barn, pumphouse, tramhouse support structures, piers, walkways, underlying and appurtenant land and related real property and improvements associated with a historic light station that is a historic property.

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Historical and Revision Notes

Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 30510116 U.S.C. 470w–7(e).Pub. L. 89–665, title III, § 308(e), as added Pub. L. 106–355, § 2, Oct. 24, 2000, 114 Stat. 1388. The text of 16 U.S.C. 470w–7(e)(5) is omitted as unnecessary. In paragraph (3)(A), the words “that is a historic property” are substituted for “provided that the ‘historic light station’ shall be included in or eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places” because of the definition of “historic property” in section 300308 of the new title.

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54 U.S.C. § 305101

Title 54National Park Service and Related Programs

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73