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Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102

§425d Duties of Commission

Title 16 › CHAPTER 1 — NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › SUBCHAPTER LX — NATIONAL MILITARY PARKS › § 425d

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

Commissioners must work under the Secretary of the Interior to find, record, and protect the lines and features of the opposing armies from those battles. They must open, build, and fix roads, paths, and other ways so the public and students can reach the historic places. They must mark important battlefield features — like fortifications, gun positions, battle lines, troop locations, buildings, and similar sites — with monuments, plaques, or other markers as the Secretary decides. They may also build observation towers the Secretary thinks are needed. Under the Secretary’s direction, the commission may hire workers and buy supplies, paying rates set by the Secretary, to carry out the work required by sections 425 to 425j.

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Title 16, §425d

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It shall be the duty of the commissioners, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, to survey, locate, and preserve the lines of the opposing armies in said battles, to open, construct, and repair such roads, highways, paths, and other approaches as may be necessary to make the historical points accessible to the public and to students of said battles and for the purposes of the park, to ascertain and mark with historical monuments, markers, tablets, or otherwise, as the Secretary of the Interior may determine, all breastworks, earthworks, gun emplacements, walls, or other defenses or shelters, lines of battle, location of troops, buildings, and other historical points of interest within the park or in its vicinity, and to establish and construct such observation towers as the Secretary of the Interior may deem necessary for said park, and the said commission in establishing the park shall have authority, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior to employ such labor and services at rates to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, and to obtain such supplies and materials as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of sections 425 to 425j of this title.

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Notes & Related Subsidiaries

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Transfer of Functions

Transfer of administrative functions of park, see note set out under section 425 of this title.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 425d

Title 16, Conservation

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102