16 USC § 450 - Administration, protection, and development

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title: "16 USC § 450 - Administration, protection, and development"
title_number: 16
title_name: "CONSERVATION"
section_number: "450"
section_name: "Administration, protection, and development"
chapter_number: 1
chapter_name: "NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES"
subchapter_number: "LXI"
subchapter_name: "NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL MONUMENTS AND MEMORIALS"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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source_credit: "(June 18, 1934, ch. 573, § 3, 48 Stat. 983.)"
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# 1 Administration, protection, and development

See References in Text note below.

August 25, 1916[^1]

The administration, protection, and development of the aforesaid national monument 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.

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**Source Credit**: (June 18, 1934, ch. 573, § 3, 48 Stat. 983.)

## Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Act of , entitled “An Act to establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes”, referred to in text, is , , known as the National Park Service Organic Act, which 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 Sections 1 to 4 of the Act were repealed and restated as , Crimes and Criminal Procedure, and section 100101(a), chapter 1003, and sections 100751(a), 100752, 100753, and 102101 of Title 54 by , §§ 3,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 .

## 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.