§ 407n. — Cooperative agreements between Secretary of the Interior and City of Philadelphia; contents.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC407n]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER LI--INDEPENDENCE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
Sec. 407n. Cooperative agreements between Secretary of the
Interior and City of Philadelphia; contents
In furtherance of the general purposes of this subchapter as
prescribed in section 407m of this title, the Secretary of the Interior
is authorized to enter into cooperative agreements with the city of
Philadelphia to assist in the preservation and interpretation of the
property known as the Independence Hall National Historic Site and with
the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia to assist in the preservation
and interpretation of Carpenters' Hall, in connection with the
Independence National Historical Park. Such agreements shall contain,
but shall not be limited to, provisions that the Secretary of the
Interior, through the National Park Service, shall have right of access
at all reasonable times to all public portions of the property now
within Independence Hall National Historic Site and to Carpenters' Hall
for the purpose of conducting visitors through such buildings and
grounds and interpreting them to the public, that no changes or
alterations shall be made in the property within the Independence Hall
National Historic Site, including its buildings and grounds, or in
Carpenters' Hall, except by mutual agreement between the Secretary of
the Interior and the other parties to the contracts.
(June 28, 1948, ch. 687, Sec. 2, 62 Stat. 1061.)
Transfer of Functions
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, Government Organization and Employees.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 407m of this title.
