§ 430i. — Guilford Courthouse National Military Park.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC430i]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER LX--NATIONAL MILITARY PARKS
Sec. 430i. Guilford Courthouse National Military Park
In order to preserve for historical and professional military study
one of the most memorable battles of the Revolutionary War, the
Battlefield of Guilford Courthouse, in the State of North Carolina,
containing in the aggregate 125 acres, more or less, together with all
privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging, title to which has
heretofore been acquired by the United States, shall be a national
military park and shall be known as the Guilford Courthouse National
Military Park. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed
to acquire at such times and in such manner such additional lands
adjacent to the Guilford Courthouse National Military Park as may be
necessary for the purposes of the park and for its improvement. It shall
be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior, to open or repair such
roads as may be necessary to the purposes of the park, and to ascertain
and mark with historical tablets or otherwise, as the Secretary of the
Interior may determine, all lines of battle of the troops engaged in the
Battle of Guilford Courthouse and other historical points of interest
pertaining to the battle within the park or its vicinity; and the
Secretary of the Interior shall make and enforce all needed regulations
for the care of the park. It shall be lawful for any State that had
troops engaged in the battle of Guilford Courthouse to enter upon the
lands of the Guilford Courthouse National Military Park for the purpose
of ascertaining and marking the lines of battle of its troops engaged
therein: Provided, That before any such lines are permanently designated
the position of the lines and the proposed methods of marking them, by
monuments, tablets, or otherwise, shall be submitted to and approved by
the Secretary of the Interior; and all such lines, designs, and
inscriptions for the same shall first receive the written approval of
the Secretary of the Interior. If any person shall, except by permission
of the Secretary of the Interior, destroy, mutilate, deface, injure, or
remove any monument, column, statues, memorial structures, or work of
art that shall be erected or placed upon the grounds of the park by
lawful authority, or shall destroy or remove any fence, railing,
inclosure, or other work for the protection or ornamentation of said
park, or any portion thereof, or shall destroy, cut, hack, bark, break
down, or otherwise injure any tree, brush, or shrubbery that may be
growing upon said park, or shall cut down or fell or remove any timber,
battle relic, tree, or trees growing or being upon said park, or hunt
within the limits of the park, any person so offending and found guilty
thereof before any justice of the peace of the county of Guilford, State
of North Carolina, shall, for each and every such offense, forfeit and
pay a fine, in the discretion of the justice, according to the
aggravation of the offense, of not less than $5 nor more than $50, one-
half for the use of the park and the other half to the informer, to be
enforced and recovered before such justice in like manner as debts of
like nature were on March 2, 1917, by law recoverable in the said county
of Guilford, State of North Carolina.
(Mar. 2, 1917, ch. 152, 39 Stat. 996; Ex. Ord. No. 6166, Sec. 2, June
10, 1933; Ex. Ord. No. 6228, Sec. 1, July 28, 1933; Pub. L. 89-554,
Sec. 8(a), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 643.)
Amendments
1966--Pub. L. 89-554 struck out provisions which required the
affairs of park, subject to supervision and direction of Secretary of
the Interior, to be in charge of three commissioners.
Transfer of Functions
Administrative functions of Guilford Courthouse National Military
Park transferred to Department of the Interior by Ex. Ord. Nos. 6166 and
6228, set out as notes under section 901 of Title 5, Government
Organization and Employees.
National Park Service substituted for Office of National Parks,
Buildings, and Reservations referred to in Ex. Ord. No. 6166, by act
Mar. 2, 1934, ch. 38, Sec. 1, 48 Stat. 389.
Abolition of Commission
Act Oct. 9, 1942, ch. 583, 56 Stat. 778, provided: ``That the
Guilford Courthouse National Military Park Commission, established
pursuant to the Act of March 2, 1917 (39 Stat. 996; 16 U.S.C. 430i), is
abolished effective at the expiration, on October 13, 1941, of the
current appointment of the resident commissioner.''
