Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102

§410yyy–1 Donation of Property; Condemnation Proceedings

Title 16 › CHAPTER 1 — NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › SUBCHAPTER LIX–WW — OCMULGEE MOUNDS NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK › § 410yyy–1

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of the Interior may accept gifts of land, rights in land, buildings, structures, other property, and money for buying or caring for property inside the national monument, so long as the land titles meet the Secretary’s approval. The Secretary may use donated funds to buy needed tracts at prices he finds reasonable or, if they cannot be bought, take them by condemnation under section 3113 of title 40.

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Title 16, §410yyy–1

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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 said national monument as determined and fixed hereunder and donations of funds for the purchase and/or maintenance thereof, the title and evidence of title to lands acquired to be satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, That he may acquire on behalf of the United States under any donated funds by purchase when purchasable at prices deemed by him reasonable, otherwise by condemnation under the provisions of section 3113 of title 40, such tracts of land within the said national monument as may be necessary for the completion thereof.

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Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 447b of this title. “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. § 410yyy–1

Title 16, Conservation

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Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102