Title 54, National Park Service and Related ProgramsRelease 119-110

§305101 Definitions

Title 54 › Subtitle III — National Preservation Programs › CHAPTER 3051 — HISTORIC LIGHT STATION PRESERVATION › § 305101

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Defines key words used in this chapter. Administrator means the Administrator of General Services. Eligible entity means a federal department or agency, or a state or local agency, nonprofit, educational agency, or community development organization where a historic light station is located — but only if it agrees to follow the conditions in section 305104, records those conditions with the deed, and has the money to maintain the light station. Federal aid to navigation means U.S.-operated devices outside a vessel or aircraft that help find position, show safe course, or warn of dangers and includes lights, antennas, sensors, power sources, and similar equipment. Historic light station means the lighthouse and tower, keeper’s house and support buildings, piers, walkways, land, and other related property and improvements that are historic.

Full Legal Text

Title 54, §305101

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In this chapter:
(1)Administrator.— (2) Eligible entity.—
The term “Administrator” means the Administrator of General Services.
(3)Federal aid to navigation.—
(A)In general.—
The term “Federal aid to navigation” means any device, operated and maintained by the United States, external to a vessel or aircraft, intended to assist a navigator to determine position or safe course, or to warn of dangers or obstructions to navigation.
(B)Inclusions.—
The term “Federal aid to navigation” includes a light, lens, lantern, antenna, sound signal, camera, sensor, piece of electronic navigation equipment, power source, or other piece of equipment associated with a device described in subparagraph (A).
(4)Historic light station.—
The term “historic light station” includes the light tower, lighthouse, keeper’s dwelling, garages, storage sheds, oil house, fog signal building, boat house, barn, pumphouse, tramhouse support structures, piers, walkways, underlying and appurtenant land and related real property and improvements associated with a historic light station that is a historic property.

Legislative History

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Historical and Revision Notes

Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 30510116 U.S.C. 470w–7(e).Pub. L. 89–665, title III, § 308(e), as added Pub. L. 106–355, § 2, Oct. 24, 2000, 114 Stat. 1388. The text of 16 U.S.C. 470w–7(e)(5) is omitted as unnecessary. In paragraph (3)(A), the words “that is a historic property” are substituted for “provided that the ‘historic light station’ shall be included in or eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places” because of the definition of “historic property” in section 300308 of the new title.

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Citation

54 U.S.C. § 305101

Title 54, National Park Service and Related Programs

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110