Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102
§112 Control; Regulations; Prehistoric Ruins
Title 16 › CHAPTER 1 — NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › SUBCHAPTER XII — MESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK › § 112
Summary
The Secretary of the Interior has exclusive control of Mesa Verde National Park and must create rules and services to manage and protect its prehistoric ruins and relics.
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Title 16, §112
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Mesa Verde National Park shall be under the exclusive control of the Secretary of the Interior, whose duty it shall be to prescribe such rules and regulations and establish such service as he may deem necessary for the care and management of the same. Such regulations shall provide specifically for the preservation from injury or spoliation of the ruins and other works and relics of prehistoric or primitive man within said park.
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Codification As enacted by act June 29, 1906, this section began with a clause naming the park which was stricken out and inserted as the last sentence of section 111 of this title.
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16 U.S.C. § 112
Title 16, Conservation
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Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102