Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102
§410vv–6 Reservation of Use and Occupancy
Title 16 › CHAPTER 1 — NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › SUBCHAPTER LIX–T — MARSH-BILLINGS-ROCKEFELLER NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK › § 410vv–6
Summary
The Secretary can allow a homeowner with a house inside the historic zone to keep the right to live in that property for personal, noncommercial use. That right can last no more than 25 years or can end when the owner and the owner’s spouse have both died, whichever happens later. The owner must choose which of those two time options to keep.
Full Legal Text
Title 16, §410vv–6
Conservation, Source: USLM XML via OLRC
In acquiring land within the historic zone, the Secretary may permit an owner of improved residential property within the boundaries of the historic zone to retain a right of use and occupancy of such property for noncommercial residential purposes for a term not to exceed 25 years or a term ending at the death of the owner, or the owner’s spouse, whichever occurs last. The owner shall elect the term to be reserved.
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Citations & Metadata
Citation
16 U.S.C. § 410vv–6
Title 16, Conservation
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102