§ 162. — Control; regulations; leases; sale and removal of timber.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC162]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER XX--GLACIER NATIONAL PARK
Sec. 162. Control; regulations; leases; sale and removal of
timber
Glacier National Park shall be under the exclusive control of the
Secretary of the Interior. In addition to the powers and duties
enumerated in section 3 of this title not inconsistent with this
section, he shall make and publish such rules and regulations not
inconsistent with the laws of the United States as he may deem necessary
or proper for the care, protection, management, and improvement of the
same, which regulations shall provide for the preservation of the park
in a state of nature so far as is consistent with the purposes of this
section and section 161 of this title, and for the care and protection
of the fish and game within the boundaries thereof. He may, in his
discretion, execute leases to parcels of ground not exceeding ten acres
in extent at any one place to any one person or company, for not to
exceed twenty years, when such ground is necessary for the erection of
buildings for the accommodation of visitors, and to parcels of ground
not exceeding one acre in extent and for not to exceed twenty years to
persons who have heretofore erected or whom he may hereafter authorize
to erect summer homes or cottages; he may also sell and permit the
removal of such matured or dead or down timber as he may deem necessary
or advisable for the protection or improvement of the park.
(May 11, 1910, ch. 226, Sec. 2, 36 Stat. 354.)
