Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102
§428g Occupation of Lands by Former Owners
Title 16 › CHAPTER 1 — NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › SUBCHAPTER LX — NATIONAL MILITARY PARKS › § 428g
Summary
The Interior Secretary may make simple, low-cost agreements letting people who now live on the land stay and farm it. They must keep existing buildings, roads, fields, and forests, follow rules for cutting trees or brush, and help protect any tablets, monuments, or other man-made works.
Full Legal Text
Title 16, §428g
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The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to enter into agreements, upon such nominal terms as he may prescribe, with such present owners of the land as may desire to remain upon it, to occupy and cultivate their present holdings, upon condition that they will preserve the present buildings and roads, and the present outlines of field and forest, and that they will only cut trees or underbrush under such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe, and that they will assist in caring for and protecting all tablets, monuments, or such other artificial works as may from time to time be erected by proper authority.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
Transfer of administrative functions of park, see note set out under section 428 of this title.
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Citation
16 U.S.C. § 428g
Title 16, Conservation
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102