§ 695a. — Title in United States of California refuge areas; existence of easements, reservations, etc.; affecting acquisition.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC695a]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 6--GAME AND BIRD PRESERVES; PROTECTION
Sec. 695a. Title in United States of California refuge areas;
existence of easements, reservations, etc.; affecting
acquisition
The Secretary of the Interior may do all things and make all
expenditures necessary to secure the safe title in the United States to
the areas which may be acquired under sections 695 to 695c of this
title, including purchase of options when deemed necessary, and expenses
incident to the location, examination and survey of such areas and the
acquisition of title thereto, but no payments shall be made for any such
areas until the title thereto shall be satisfactory to the Attorney
General. The acquisition of such areas by the United States shall in no
case be defeated because of rights-of-way, easements, exceptions, and
reservations which from their nature will, in the opinion of the
Secretary of the Interior, in no manner interfere with the use of the
areas so encumbered for the purposes of said sections.
(May 18, 1948, ch. 303, Sec. 2, 62 Stat. 238.)
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 695b, 695c of this title.
