16 USC § 441c - Administration, protection, and promotion; franchises for hotel and lodge accommodations

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title: "16 USC § 441c - Administration, protection, and promotion; franchises for hotel and lodge accommodations"
title_number: 16
title_name: "CONSERVATION"
section_number: "441c"
section_name: "Administration, protection, and promotion; franchises for hotel and lodge accommodations"
chapter_number: 1
chapter_name: "NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES"
subchapter_number: "LXI"
subchapter_name: "NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL MONUMENTS AND MEMORIALS"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
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source_credit: "(Mar. 4, 1929, ch. 693, § 4, 45 Stat. 1555; Pub. L. 95–625, title VI, § 611, Nov. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3521.)"
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# 1 Administration, protection, and promotion; franchises for hotel and lodge accommodations

See References in Text note below.

August 25, 1916June 2, 1920[^1]*Provided*

The administration, protection, and promotion of said Badlands National Park shall be exercised under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior by the National Park Service, subject to the provisions of the Act of , entitled “An Act to establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes,” as amended by the Act of  (Forty-first United States Statutes at Large, page 732):  , That in advance of the fulfillment of the conditions herein the Secretary of the Interior may grant franchises for hotel and for lodge accommodations under the provisions of this section.

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**Source Credit**: (Mar. 4, 1929, ch. 693, § 4, 45 Stat. 1555; Pub. L. 95–625, title VI, § 611, Nov. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3521.)

## Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Act of , entitled “An Act to establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes”, as amended by the Act of  (Forty-first United States Statutes at Large, page 732), referred to in text, is , , as amended by , . The act , known as the National Park Service Organic Act, enacted sections 1, 2, 3, and 4 of this title and provisions set out as a note under , National Park Service and Related Programs. Sections 1 to 4 of the Act were repealed and restated as , Crimes and Criminal Procedure, and section 100101(a), chapter 1003, and sections 100751(a), 100752, 100753, and 102101 of Title 54 by , §§ 3, 4(a)(1), 7, , , 3260, 3272. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables. For disposition of former sections of this title, see Disposition Table preceding .

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

“Park” substituted in text for “Monument” pursuant to , which is classified to  and which redesignated Badlands National Monument as Badlands National Park.

## Executive Documents

### Transfer of Functions

For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, eff. , 15 F.R. 3174, , set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.