16 USC § 157 - Acquisition of lands

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identifier: "/us/usc/t16/s157"
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legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "16 USC § 157 - Acquisition of lands"
title_number: 16
title_name: "CONSERVATION"
section_number: "157"
section_name: "Acquisition of lands"
chapter_number: 1
chapter_name: "NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES"
subchapter_number: "XVII"
subchapter_name: "BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(June 20, 1935, ch. 283, § 2, 49 Stat. 393.)"
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# § 157. Acquisition of lands

section 156 of this title*Provided*

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion and upon submission of evidence of title satisfactory to him, to accept, on behalf of the United States, title to the lands referred to in  as may be deemed by him necessary or desirable for national-park purposes: , That no land for the Big Bend National Park shall be accepted until exclusive jurisdiction over the entire area, in form satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior, shall have been ceded by the State of Texas to the United States.

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**Source Credit**: (June 20, 1935, ch. 283, § 2, 49 Stat. 393.)