Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73not60

§202 Control; Rules and Regulations; Fish and Game; Leases; Automobiles; Stock Grazing

Title 16 › Chapter 1— NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › Subchapter XXII— LASSEN VOLCANIC NATIONAL PARK › § 202

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of the Interior must take exclusive charge of Lassen Volcanic National Park. They must quickly make and publish rules to care for, protect, manage, and improve the park. The rules should let people enjoy the park for recreation while protecting timber, minerals, and natural features and keeping the area as natural as possible. The Secretary must stop wasteful killing or capture of fish and wildlife, especially for sale, and may take any actions needed to carry out these goals and those in sections 201 and 203. The Secretary may lease land for buildings and homes: up to 10 acres at one site for visitor buildings, and up to 1 acre for summer homes or cottages, each lease for up to 20 years and renewable. No one can get exclusive rights except on leased land. Park rules must also cover use of automobiles and reasonable grazing of stock.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §202

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Lassen Volcanic National Park shall be under the exclusive control of the Secretary of the Interior, whose duty it shall be, as soon as practicable, to make and publish such rules and regulations not inconsistent with the laws of the United States as he may deem necessary or proper for the care, protection, management, and improvement of the same. Such regulations being primarily aimed at the freest use of the said park for recreation purposes by the public and for the preservation from injury or spoliation of all timber, mineral deposits, and natural curiosities or wonders within said park and their retention in their natural condition as far as practicable and for the preservation of the park in a state of nature so far as is consistent with the purposes of this section and section 201 and 203 of this title. He shall provide against the wanton destruction of the fish and game found within said park and against their capture or destruction for purposes of merchandise or profit, and generally shall be authorized to take all such measures as shall be necessary to fully carry out the objects and purposes of this section and section 201 and 203 of this title. Said Secretary may, in his discretion, execute leases to parcels of ground not exceeding ten acres in extent at any one place to any one person or persons or company for not to exceed twenty years when such ground is necessary for the erection of buildings for the accommodation of visitors and to parcels of ground not exceeding one acre in extent and for not to exceed twenty years to persons who have heretofore erected, or whom he may hereafter authorize to erect, summer homes or cottages. Such leases or privileges may be renewed or extended at the expiration of the terms thereof. No exclusive privilege, however, shall be granted within the park except upon the ground leased. The regulations governing the park shall include provisions for the use of automobiles therein and the reasonable grazing of stock.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 202

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60