Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73not60

§459 Cape Hatteras National Seashore Recreational Area; Conditional Establishment; Acquisition of Lands

Title 16 › Chapter 1— NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › Subchapter LXIII— NATIONAL SEASHORE RECREATIONAL AREAS › § 459

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The area will become the Cape Hatteras National Seashore Recreational Area for public use once the United States owns all the land (except land inside established village limits) and the nearby waters and seabed within boundaries the Secretary of the Interior sets in about one hundred square miles on the islands Chicamacomico, Ocracoke, Bodie, Roanoke, and Collington. The United States may not buy these lands with public money; they must be given by public or private donation.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §459

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When title to all the lands, except those within the limits of established villages, within boundaries to be designated by the Secretary of the Interior within the area of approximately one hundred square miles on the islands of Chicamacomico, Ocracoke, Bodie, Roanoke, and Collington,11 So in original. Probably should be “Colington,”. and the waters and the lands beneath the waters adjacent thereto shall have been vested in the United States, said area shall be, and is, established, dedicated, and set apart as a national seashore recreational area for the benefit and enjoyment of the people and shall be known as the Cape Hatteras National Seashore Recreational Area: Provided, That the United States shall not purchase by appropriation of public moneys any lands within the aforesaid area, but such lands shall be secured by the United States only by public or private donation.

Legislative History

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Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

Words “national seashore recreational area” substituted in text for “national seashore” pursuant to act June 29, 1940.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 459

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60