Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102
§159a Acceptance of Donations
Title 16 › CHAPTER 1 — NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › SUBCHAPTER XVIII — SARATOGA NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK › § 159a
Summary
Secretary of the Interior may accept gifts of land, buildings, other property, and money for park lands. Titles must satisfy him. He may use donated funds to buy needed tracts at prices he finds reasonable or, if not, obtain them by condemnation under section 3113 of title 40.
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Title 16, §159a
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The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept donations of land, interests in land, buildings, structures, and other property within the boundaries of said historical park as determined and fixed hereunder and donations of funds for the purchase or maintenance thereof, the title and evidence of title to lands acquired to be satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, That he may acquire on behalf of the United States, out of any donated funds, by purchase when purchasable at prices deemed by him reasonable, otherwise by condemnation under the provisions of section 3113 of title 40, such tracts of land within the said historical park as may be necessary for the completion thereof.
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Editorial Notes
Codification “Section 3113 of title 40” substituted in text for “the Act of August 1, 1888” on authority of Pub. L. 107–217, § 5(c), Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1303, the first section of which enacted Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works.
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16 U.S.C. § 159a
Title 16, Conservation
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102