§ 45c. — Prior claims, locations, and entries; permits for use of natural resources.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC45c]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER VI--SEQUOIA AND YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARKS
Sec. 45c. Prior claims, locations, and entries; permits for use
of natural resources
Nothing herein contained shall affect any valid existing claim,
location, or entry established prior to July 3, 1926, under the land
laws of the United States, whether for homestead, mineral, right-of-way,
or any other purpose whatsoever, or shall affect the rights of any such
claimant, locator, or entryman to the full use and enjoyment of his
land: Provided, That under rules and regulations to be prescribed by him
the Secretary of the Interior may issue permits to any bona fide
claimant, entryman, landowner, or lessee of land within the boundaries
herein established to secure timber for use on and for the improvement
of his land; and he shall also have authority to issue, under rules and
regulations to be prescribed by him, grazing permits and authorize the
grazing of livestock on the lands within said park at fees not to exceed
those charged by the Forest Service on adjacent areas, so long as such
timber cutting and grazing are not detrimental to the primary purpose
for which such park is created: Provided, That no permit, license,
lease, or authorization for dams, conduits, reservoirs, power houses,
transmission lines, or other works for storage or carriage of water, or
for the development, transmission, or utilization of power within the
limits of said park as constituted by said sections, shall be granted or
made without specific authority of Congress.
(July 3, 1926, ch. 744, Sec. 3, 44 Stat. 820.)
References in Text
Herein, referred to in text, means act July 3, 1926, which is
classified to sections 45a, 45b to 45e, and 688 of this title. For
complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 45e of this title.
