§ 729. — Price per acre.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC729]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 8--UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER NATIONAL WILDLIFE AND FISH REFUGE
Sec. 729. Price per acre
The Secretary of the Interior shall not pay for any land or land and
water a price which shall exceed an average cost of $10 per acre:
Provided, That this provision shall not apply to any land or land and
water prior to May 12, 1928, acquired or contracted for under the
provisions of this chapter.
(June 7, 1924, ch. 346, Sec. 10, 43 Stat. 652; Mar. 4, 1925, ch. 558, 43
Stat. 1354; May 12, 1928, ch. 534, 45 Stat. 502; 1939 Reorg. Plan No.
II, Sec. 4 (f), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433.)
Codification
Provisions of this section, which authorized an appropriation of
$1,500,000 for the acquisition of authorized areas and for all necessary
expenses thereto, were omitted. The text set out above constituted the
first and second provisos to the omitted provisions.
Amendments
1928--Act May 12, 1928, substituted ``which shall exceed an average
cost of $10 per acre'' for ``which when added to the price of land or
land and water theretofore purchased, shall exceed an average cost of $5
per acre'', and inserted proviso making the provision of this section
inapplicable to any land or land and water prior to May 12, 1928.
1925--Act Mar. 4, 1925, substituted proviso for restriction on
availability of money for acquisition of areas.
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 723 of this title.
