§ 430l. — Leases with preceding owners of acquired lands; conditions.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC430l]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER LX--NATIONAL MILITARY PARKS
Sec. 430l. Leases with preceding owners of acquired lands;
conditions
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to lease to the
immediately preceding owner or owners any lands acquired pursuant to an
agreement that such lessee or lessees will occupy such lands in a manner
consistent with the purposes of sections 430j to 430m and 430o to 430s
of this title and that they will preserve the present breastworks,
earthworks, walls, defenses, shelters, buildings, and roads, and the
present outlines of the battlefields, and that they will only cut trees
or underbrush or disturb or remove the soil, under such regulations as
the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, and that they will assist
in protecting all tablets, monuments, or such other artificial works as
may from time to time be erected by proper authority.
(June 21, 1934, ch. 694, Sec. 3, 48 Stat. 1199; Pub. L. 94-578, title
III, Sec. 319(3), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2738.)
Amendments
1976--Pub. L. 94-578 substituted ``lease to the immediately
preceding owner or owners any lands acquired pursuant to an agreement
that such lessee or lessees will occupy such lands in a manner
consistent with the purposes of sections 430j to 430m and 430o to 430s
of this title and'' for ``enter into leases with the owners of such of
the lands, works, defenses, and buildings thereon within the Monocacy
National Military Park, as in his discretion it is unnecessary to
forthwith acquire title to, and such leases shall be on such terms and
conditions as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, and may
contain options to purchase, subject to later acceptance, if, in the
judgment of the Secretary of the Interior, it is as economical to
purchase as condemn title to the property: Provided, That the Secretary
of the Interior may enter into agreements upon such nominal terms as he
may prescribe, permitting the present owners or their tenants to occupy
or cultivate their present holdings, upon condition''.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 430o, 430s of this title.
