Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102

§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 Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of the Interior must have exclusive control of Lassen Volcanic National Park and must quickly make and publish rules to care for, protect, manage, and improve it. The rules must promote public recreation while protecting timber, mineral deposits, natural wonders, and the park’s natural condition as much as possible. The Secretary must stop wanton destruction of fish and wildlife and prevent their capture or killing for sale, and may take any actions needed to achieve these goals. The Secretary may lease up to 10-acre parcels for up to 20 years for visitor buildings, and up to 1-acre parcels for up to 20 years for summer homes or cottages; leases can be renewed. No one gets an exclusive right in the park except on land they lease. Park rules must also cover automobile use 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

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102