§ 1245. — Connecting or side trails; establishment, designation, and marking as components of national trails system; location.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC1245]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 27--NATIONAL TRAILS SYSTEM
Sec. 1245. Connecting or side trails; establishment,
designation, and marking as components of national trails
system; location
Connecting or side trails within park, forest, and other recreation
areas administered by the Secretary of the Interior or Secretary of
Agriculture may be established, designated, and marked by the
appropriate Secretary as components of a national recreation, national
scenic or national historic trail. When no Federal land acquisition is
involved, connecting or side trails may be located across lands
administered by interstate, State, or local governmental agencies with
their consent, or, where the appropriate Secretary deems necessary or
desirable, on privately owned lands with the consent of the landowner.
Applications for approval and designation of connecting and side trails
on non-Federal lands shall be submitted to the appropriate Secretary.
(Pub. L. 90-543, Sec. 6, Oct. 2, 1968, 82 Stat. 922; Pub. L. 95-625,
title V, Sec. 551(16), Nov. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3515; Pub. L. 98-11,
title II, Sec. 206, Mar. 28, 1983, 97 Stat. 45.)
Amendments
1983--Pub. L. 98-11 substituted ``marked by the appropriate
Secretary as components'' for ``marked as components'' and ``, or, where
the appropriate Secretary deems necessary or desirable, on privately
owned lands with the consent of the landowner. Applications for approval
and designation of connecting and side trails on non-Federal lands shall
be submitted to the appropriate Secretary'' for ``: Provided, That such
trails provide additional points of public access to national
recreation, national scenic or national historic trails''.
1978--Pub. L. 95-625 substituted ``, national scenic or national
historic'' for ``or national scenic,'' and ``, national scenic, or
national historic'' for ``or scenic''.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 1242 of this title.
