Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102
§263 Acceptance of Donations
Title 16 › CHAPTER 1 — NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › SUBCHAPTER XXVIII — CUMBERLAND GAP NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK › § 263
Summary
The Secretary of the Interior can accept donations of land, land rights, buildings, structures, other property, and money for the park inside its official boundaries. Donations may be for buying or keeping up the park. He may use donated money to buy needed land at prices he finds reasonable or acquire it by condemnation under section 3113 of title 40. Any land title he gets must be acceptable to him.
Full Legal Text
Title 16, §263
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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 the said historical park as determined and fixed under this subchapter, and donations of funds for the purchase and maintenance thereof: Provided, That he may acquire on behalf of the United States out of any donated funds, by purchase at prices deemed by him reasonable, or by condemnation under the provisions of section 3113 of title 40, such tracts of land within said historical park as may be necessary for the completion thereof. The title to any lands or interests in lands to be acquired pursuant to this subchapter shall be satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior.
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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. § 263
Title 16, Conservation
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102