§ 164. — Eliminating private holdings of lands; timber or public lands of equal value in exchange.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC164]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER XX--GLACIER NATIONAL PARK
Sec. 164. Eliminating private holdings of lands; timber or
public lands of equal value in exchange
The Secretary of the Interior, for the purpose of eliminating
private holdings within the Glacier National Park and the preservation
intact of the natural forest along the roads in the scenic portions of
the park, both on patented and park lands, is empowered, in his
discretion: (1) To obtain for the United States the complete title to
any or all of the lands held in private or State ownership within the
boundaries of said park within townships 32 and 33 north, ranges 18 and
19 west of Montana principal meridian, by the exchange of dead,
decadent, or matured timber of approximately equal values that can be
removed from any part of the park without injuriously affecting the
scenic beauty thereof; or, upon the approval of the Secretary of
Agriculture, the timber to be selected or exchanged may be taken from
the Government lands within the metes and bounds of the national forests
within the State of Montana, or, (2) to obtain for the United States the
complete title to any or all of the lands held in private ownership
within the boundaries of said park by accepting from the owners of such
privately owned lands complete relinquishment thereof and by granting
and patenting to such owners, in exchange therefor, in each instance,
like public land of equal value situate in the State of Montana, after
due notice of the proposed exchange has been given by publication for
not less than thirty days in the counties where the lands proposed to be
exchanged or taken in exchange are located.
(Mar. 3, 1917, ch. 164, Sec. 1, 39 Stat. 1122; Feb. 28, 1923, ch. 144,
Sec. 1, 42 Stat. 1324.)
Codification
Section is based on section 1 of act Mar. 3, 1917, and section 1 of
act Feb. 23, 1923; subdivision (1) being from the former and subdivision
(2) being from the latter act. Of the language preceding subdivision
(1), that portion from the beginning of the section to the word ``and''
was common to both of the sections aforesaid, while the remaining
portion was derived from section 1 of act Mar. 3, 1917.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 165, 166 of this title.
