§ 49. — Rights of claimants and owners of lands included; laws and regulations applicable within 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: 16USC49]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER VI--SEQUOIA AND YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARKS
Sec. 49. Rights of claimants and owners of lands included; laws
and regulations applicable within park
None of the lands patented and in private ownership in the area
included under sections 46 and 47 of this title in the Sierra National
Forest shall have the privileges of the lieu-land scrip provisions of
the land laws, but otherwise to be in all respects under the laws and
regulations affecting the national forests. All laws, rules, and
regulations affecting national forests, including the right to change
the boundaries thereof by Executive proclamation, shall take effect and
be in force within the limits of the territory excluded by sections 46
and 47 of this title from the Yosemite National Park, except as
otherwise provided.
(Feb. 7, 1905, ch. 547, Sec. 2, 33 Stat. 703; June 11, 1906, No. 27,
Sec. 2, 34 Stat. 832; Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, 34 Stat. 1269.)
Codification
``Sierra National Forest'' and ``national forests'' substituted in
text for ``Sierra Forest Reserve'' and for ``forest reserves'' and
``forest reservations'', respectively, on authority of act Mar. 4, 1907,
ch. 2907, 34 Stat. 1269, which provided that forest reserves shall
hereafter be known as national forests.
