§ 214. — Rules and regulations.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC214]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER XXIII--ABRAHAM LINCOLN BIRTHPLACE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE
Sec. 214. Rules and regulations
Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site shall be under the
control of the National Park Service and administered under such
regulations not inconsistent with law as it may from time to time
prescribed.
(July 17, 1916, ch. 247, Sec. 4, 39 Stat. 386; Ex. Ord. No. 6166,
Sec. 2, June 10, 1933; Ex. Ord. No. 6228, Sec. 1, July 28, 1933; Mar. 2,
1934, ch. 38, Sec. 1, 48 Stat. 389; Aug. 11, 1939, ch. 686, 53 Stat.
1405; Pub. L. 86-231, Sept. 8, 1959, 73 Stat. 466.)
Codification
As originally enacted, this section read as follows: ``Upon the
passage of this Act and the vesting of the title to the property
accepted thereunder in the United States, it shall be under the control
of the Secretary of War and administered under such regulations not
inconsistent with law as he may from time to time prescribe.'' Sections
211 and 212 of this title, refer to the lands as a national park or
reservation.
Prefixes making the provisions of this section effective, upon the
passage of this Act and the vesting of the title to the property
accepted, have been omitted as temporary.
Change of Name
Pub. L. 86-231 substituted ``Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National
Historic Site'' for ``Abraham Lincoln National Historical Park''.
Act Aug. 11, 1939, substituted ``Abraham Lincoln National Historical
Park'' for ``Abraham Lincoln National Park''.
Transfer of Functions
All national parks, national monuments, and national cemeteries
consolidated in an office of National Parks, Buildings and Reservations
in Department of the Interior, at head of which should be a Director of
National Parks, Buildings and Reservations, and cemeteries and parks of
War Department transferred to Department of the Interior by Executive
Order 6166, Sec. 2, as amended by Executive Order 6228, Sec. 1, set out
in a note under section 901 of Title 5, Government Organization and
Employees. This service designated the National Park Service in
Department of the Interior by act Mar. 2, 1934.
For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies
of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of
the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950,
Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in
the Appendix to Title 5.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 215, 217, 218a of this
title.
