16 U.S.C. § 112 — Control; regulations; prehistoric ruins

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This law puts Mesa Verde National Park entirely under the Secretary of the Interior's control. The Secretary must make rules to manage the park and specifically protect its prehistoric ruins and relics from damage or looting.

Mesa Verde National Park is under the exclusive control of the Secretary of the Interior. The Secretary must create the rules, regulations, and staff needed to care for and manage the park. Those regulations must specifically protect the park's prehistoric and primitive-era ruins, other works, and relics from injury or looting.

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Mesa Verde National Park shall be under the exclusive control of the Secretary of the Interior, whose duty it shall be to prescribe such rules and regulations and establish such service as he may deem necessary for the care and management of the same. Such regulations shall provide specifically for the preservation from injury or spoliation of the ruins and other works and relics of prehistoric or primitive man within said park.

Source credit: (June 29, 1906, ch. 3607, § 2, 34 Stat. 617.)

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1906Enacted · Act of June 29, 1906, ch. 3607 · 34 Stat. 617

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