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Title 54 — National Park Service and Related ProgramsRelease 119-73

§305105 Description of property

Title 54 › Subtitle Subtitle III— - National Preservation Programs › Chapter CHAPTER 3051— - HISTORIC LIGHT STATION PRESERVATION › § 305105

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Administrator must write the legal property description for any historic light station being transferred under this chapter. After talking with the Secretary of Homeland Security and the other Secretary, the Administrator may keep ownership of historic items that are at the station when it is transferred (for example, lenses or lanterns). When possible, those items should be used to help tell the station’s history. If they cannot be kept in place, they should go first to the preservation group or museum most closely tied to the station, if that group meets loan rules. Items linked to a station but not at the site when it is transferred stay the property of the United States and are managed by the Secretary of Homeland Security. Any conditions included in the quitclaim deed stay attached to the land and bind future owners. Submerged land is not transferred under this chapter.

Full Legal Text

Title 54, §305105

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(a)The Administrator shall prepare the legal description of any historic light station conveyed under this chapter. The Administrator, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Secretary, may retain all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to any historical artifact, including any lens or lantern, that is associated with the historic light station and located at the historic light station at the time of conveyance. Wherever possible, the historical artifacts should be used in interpreting the historic light station. In cases where there is no method for preserving lenses and other artifacts and equipment in situ, priority should be given to preservation or museum entities most closely associated with the historic light station, if they meet loan requirements.
(b)Artifacts associated with, but not located at, a historic light station at the time of conveyance shall remain the property of the United States under the administrative control of the Secretary of Homeland Security.
(c)All conditions placed with the quitclaim deed of title to the historic light station shall be construed as covenants running with the land.
(d)No submerged land shall be conveyed under this chapter.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Historical and Revision Notes

Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 30510516 U.S.C. 470w–7(d).Pub. L. 89–665, title III, § 308(d), as added Pub. L. 106–355, § 2, Oct. 24, 2000, 114 Stat. 1388. In subsection (a), the words “Secretary of Homeland Security” are substituted for “Commandant, United States Coast Guard” because of 6 U.S.C. 112(a)(2), 468(b) and (h), 551(d), and 552(d) and the Department of Homeland Security Reorganization Plan of November 25, 2002 (H. Doc. No. 108–16, 108th Cong., 1st Sess. (6 U.S.C. 542 note)).

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Citation

54 U.S.C. § 305105

Title 54 — National Park Service and Related Programs

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73