§ 17e. — Care and removal of indigents; disposition of dead persons.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC17e]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER I--NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
Sec. 17e. Care and removal of indigents; disposition of dead
persons
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion, to
provide, out of moneys appropriated for the general expenses of the
several national parks, for the temporary care and removal from the park
of indigents, and in case of death to provide for their burial in those
national parks not under local jurisdiction for these purposes, this
section in no case to authorize transportation of such indigent or dead
for a distance of more than fifty miles from the national park.
(May 26, 1930, ch. 324, Sec. 6, 46 Stat. 382.)
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 1c of this title.
