§ 363. — 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: 16USC363]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER XL--HOT SPRINGS NATIONAL PARK
Sec. 363. Rules and regulations
Full power is vested in the Secretary of the Interior to provide, in
all leases to be executed against any combination among lessees or their
assigns, as to ownership, prices, or accommodations at any bathhouse; as
well as to make all needful rules and regulations as to the use of the
hot water, and to prevent its waste, including full power to authorize
the superintendent of said park to make examination and inspection at
any time of the manner of using the hot water at any bathtub, that it
may be used in proper quantity only, and to prevent its waste; and also
full power to provide and fix reasonable maximum charges for all baths,
or bathing privileges, or services of any person connected with any
bathhouse furnished to bathers; and for reasonable maximum charges to
guests at the Arlington Hotel; and also, generally, the Secretary of the
Interior may make all necessary rules and regulations as to said
bathhouses and the service therein as shall be deemed best for the
public interest, and to provide penalties for the violation of any
regulation which may be enforced as though provided by Act of Congress.
All leases and grants of hot-water privileges shall be held to be
subject to all regulations in force on March 3, 1891, or which may be
adopted by the Secretary of the Interior, and for any violation of any
regulation, known to the proprietor at the time of the offense, the
lease or grant may be canceled by the Secretary of the Interior. It
shall be expressly provided in all leases and grants of privilege for
hot water that the bathhouse for which provision is made shall not be
owned or controlled by any person, company, or corporation which may be
the owner of or interested (as stockholder or otherwise) in any other
bathhouse on or near the Hot Springs National Park; that neither the
hot-water privilege granted nor any interest therein, nor the right to
operate or control said bathhouse, shall be assigned or transferred by
the party of the second part without the approval of the Secretary of
the Interior first obtained, in writing; and if the ownership or control
of said bathhouse be transferred to any person, company, or corporation
owning or interested in any other bathhouse on or near said reservation,
the Secretary of the Interior may, for that cause, deprive the bathhouse
provided for of the hot water and cancel the lease or agreement. All
buildings to be erected in the Hot Springs National Park shall be on
plans first approved by the Secretary of the Interior, and shall be
required to be fireproof, as nearly as practicable.
(Mar. 3, 1891, ch. 533, Sec. 3, 26 Stat. 843; Mar. 4, 1921, ch. 161,
Sec. 1, 41 Stat. 1407.)
Codification
A clause at the beginning of this section as originally enacted,
retaining and continuing in the Secretary of the Interior all power then
possessed by him for the regulating of leases of bath houses, bathhouse
privileges, or hotel rights on the reservation, or supplying hot water
to places off the reservation was omitted for purposes of codification.
Change of Name
``Hot Springs National Park'' substituted in text for ``Hot Springs
Reservation'' pursuant to act Mar. 4, 1921.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 368 of this title.
