§ 715e. — Examination of title; easements and reservations.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC715e]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 7--PROTECTION OF MIGRATORY GAME AND INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS
SUBCHAPTER III--MIGRATORY BIRD CONSERVATION
Sec. 715e. Examination of title; easements and reservations
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 this subchapter, but no payment
shall be made for any such areas until the title thereto shall be
satisfactory to the Attorney General or his designee, but the
acquisition of such areas by the United States shall in no case be
defeated because of rights-of-way, easements, 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 this subchapter, but such rights-of-way, easements, and
reservations retained by the grantor or lessor from whom the United
States receives title under this subchapter or any other Act for the
acquisition by the Secretary of the Interior of areas for wildlife
refuges shall be subject to rules and regulations prescribed by the
Secretary of the Interior for the occupation, use, operation,
protection, and administration of such areas as inviolate sanctuaries
for migratory birds or as refuges for wildlife; and it shall be
expressed in the deed or lease that the use, occupation, and operation
of such rights-of-way, easements, and reservations shall be subordinate
to and subject to such rules and regulations as are set out in such deed
or lease or, if deemed necessary by the Secretary of the Interior, to
such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by him from time to
time.
(Feb. 18, 1929, ch. 257, Sec. 6, 45 Stat. 1223; June 15, 1935, ch. 261,
title III, Sec. 301, 49 Stat. 381; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, Sec. 4(f),
eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433; Pub. L. 91-393, Sec. 6,
Sept. 1, 1970, 84 Stat. 835.)
Amendments
1970--Pub. L. 91-393 inserted ``or his designee'' after ``Attorney
General''.
1935--Act June 15, 1935, inserted ``under said sections or any other
Act for the acquisition by the Secretary of Agriculture of areas for
wildlife refuges'' and ``or as refuges for wildlife'', and inserted
clause beginning ``as are set out in such deed or lease or, if deemed
necessary'' etc.
Transfer of Functions
Transfer of functions of Secretary of Agriculture to Secretary of
the Interior by Reorg. Plan No. II of 1939, see Transfer of Functions
note set out under section 715a of this title.
