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Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-110

§410ww–4 Administration

Title 16 › CHAPTER 1 — NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › SUBCHAPTER LIX–U — DAYTON AVIATION HERITAGE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK › Part A — Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park › § 410ww–4

Last updated Sep 23, 2026|Official source

Summary

The park must be run under the rules that apply to all National Park units, including the law that created the National Park Service (approved August 25, 1916). The Secretary can accept gifts of money, property, or services from private or public groups to help manage the park. The Secretary can run or join in educational and cultural programs about the park. The Secretary can find and, with the owners’ permission, mark sites in the Miami Valley linked to the Wright brothers, aviation history, or Paul Laurence Dunbar, and place markers on routes that lead to park areas. The Secretary can also provide information and interpretation for Huffman Prairie Flying Field on Wright Brothers Hill at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §410ww–4

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(a)In general
The park shall be administered in accordance with this subchapter and with the provisions of law generally applicable to units of the National Park System, including, but not limited to, the Act entitled “An Act to establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes”, approved August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535; 16 U.S.C. 1–4).
(b)Donations
The Secretary may accept donations of funds, property, or services from individuals, foundations, corporations, and other private entities, and from public entities, for the purposes of managing the park.
(c)Programs
The Secretary may sponsor, coordinate, or enter into cooperative agreements for educational or cultural programs related to the park as the Secretary considers appropriate to carry out the purposes of this subchapter.
(d)Identification and marking of significant historical sites
The Secretary may identify other significant sites related to the Wright brothers, the history of aviation, or Paul Laurence Dunbar in the Miami Valley which are related to the park, and, with the consent of the owner or owners thereof, may mark the sites appropriately and make reference to them in any interpretive literature. The Secretary may provide interpretive markers along transportation routes leading to units of the park.
(e)Interpretation of Huffman Prairie Flying Field
The Secretary may provide interpretation of Huffman Prairie Flying Field on Wright Brothers Hill, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.

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The Act entitled “An Act to establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes”, approved August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535; 16 U.S.C. 1–4), referred to in subsec. (a), is act Aug. 25, 1916, ch. 408, 39 Stat. 535, known as the National Park Service Organic Act, which enacted section 1, 2, 3, and 4 of this title and provisions set out as a note under section 100101 of Title 54, National Park Service and Related Programs. Sections 1 to 4 of the Act were repealed and restated as section 1865(a) of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure, and section 100101(a), chapter 1003, and section 100751(a), 100752, 100753, and 102101 of Title 54 by Pub. L. 113–287, §§ 3, 4(a)(1), 7, Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3094, 3260, 3272. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables. For disposition of former sections of this title, see Disposition Table preceding section 100101 of Title 54.

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16 U.S.C. § 410ww–4

Title 16, Conservation

Last Updated

Sep 23, 2026

Release point: 119-110