Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102
§450p Acquisition of Property; Donations
Title 16 › CHAPTER 1 — NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › SUBCHAPTER LXI — NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL MONUMENTS AND MEMORIALS › § 450p
Summary
The Secretary of the Interior may acquire land, buildings and property within the national historic site's boundaries for the United States by purchase with project or donated funds, by condemnation under section 3113 of title 40, or by accepting donations of property or money.
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Title 16, §450p
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The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to acquire on behalf of the United States out of any funds allotted and made available for this project by proper authority or out of any donated funds, by purchase at prices deemed by him reasonable, or by condemnation under the provisions of section 3113 of title 40, or to accept by donation, such land, interest in land, and/or buildings, structures, and other property within the boundaries of said national historic site as determined and fixed hereunder, and he is further authorized to accept donations of funds for the purchase and/or maintenance thereof.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
References in Text
Hereunder, referred to in text, means act Aug. 29, 1935, which is classified to sections 450o to 450q of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables. Codification “Section 3113 of title 40” substituted in text for “the Act of August 1, 1888 (25 Stat. 357)” 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.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
“Historic site” substituted in text for “monument” on authority of Pub. L. 88–197, which redesignated Andrew Johnson National Monument as Andrew Johnson National Historic Site.
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Citation
16 U.S.C. § 450p
Title 16, Conservation
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102