§ 404. — Establishment; boundaries.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC404]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER XLVII--MAMMOTH CAVE NATIONAL PARK
Sec. 404. Establishment; boundaries
When title to lands within the area referred to in this section
shall have been vested in the United States in fee simple, there shall
be, and there is, established, dedicated, and set apart as a public park
for the benefit and enjoyment of the people, the tract of land in the
Mammoth Cave region in the State of Kentucky, being approximately
seventy thousand six hundred and eighteen acres, recommended as a
National Park by the Southern Appalachian National Park Commission to
the Secretary of the Interior, in its report of April 8, 1926, and made
under authority of the Act of February 21, 1925 (chapter 281, 43
Statutes 958); which area, or any part or parts thereof as may be
accepted on behalf of the United States in accordance with the
provisions hereof, shall be known as the Mammoth Cave National Park:
Provided, That the United States shall not purchase by appropriation of
public moneys any land within the aforesaid area, but such lands shall
be secured by the United States only by public or private donation.
(May 25, 1926, ch. 382, Sec. 1, 44 Stat. 635.)
References in Text
Act of February 21, 1925, referred to in text, was not classified to
the Code.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 404a, 404c-11, 404f of this
title.
