16 U.S.C. § 215 — Improvements and preservation of lands and buildings

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The National Park Service must protect, improve, and beautify the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park. It can build and maintain roadways, buildings, and other structures — including the memorial hall over Lincoln's log cabin birthplace — to preserve the park and keep it open to the public.

This section directs the National Park Service to protect the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park (or Reservation, established under sections 211 to 214 of this title) from deterioration, and to improve, beautify, and preserve it. To do this, the Park Service is authorized and directed to: (1) improve existing roadways, walkways, and buildings already in the park; and (2) plant trees, plants, and shrubbery; build new roadways, walkways, buildings, fences, parking spaces, drainage systems, culverts, and bridges; and make any other improvements its judgment says are needed to preserve, beautify, and protect the park from deterioration. This includes the log cabin where Abraham Lincoln was born and the memorial hall built around it. The goal of all this work is to keep the park convenient for the public to use and enjoy.

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For the purpose of protecting from disintegration and of improving, beautifying, and preserving the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park or Reservation established under sections 211 to 214 of this title, the National Park Service is authorized and directed to provide for (1) the improvement of such existing roadways, walks, and buildings in such park or reservation; and (2) the planting of such trees, plants, and shrubbery; the construction of such additional roadways, walks, and buildings, and of such fences, parking spaces, drainage structures, culverts, and bridges; and the making of such other improvements, as in its judgment may be necessary for the preservation, beautification, and protection from disintegration of such park or reservation, including the log cabin in which Abraham Lincoln was born and the memorial hall inclosing the same, and which may serve to render such park or reservation convenient for the appropriate use and enjoyment by the public.

Source credit: (Feb. 11, 1929, ch. 176, § 1, 45 Stat. 1162; Ex. Ord. No. 6166, § 2, June 10, 1933; Ex. Ord. No. 6228, § 1, July 28, 1933; Mar. 2, 1934, ch. 38, § 1, 48 Stat. 389; Aug. 11, 1939, ch. 686, 53 Stat. 1405; Pub. L. 86–231, Sept. 8, 1959, 73 Stat. 466; Pub. L. 111–11, title VII, § 7114(b), Mar. 30, 2009, 123 Stat. 1202.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1929Enacted · Act of Feb. 11, 1929, ch. 176 · 45 Stat. 1162
1934Amended · Act of Mar. 2, 1934, ch. 38 · 48 Stat. 389
1939Amended · Act of Aug. 11, 1939, ch. 686 · 53 Stat. 1405
1959Amended · Pub. L. 86-231 · 73 Stat. 466
2009Amended · Pub. L. 111-11 · 123 Stat. 1202

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 176 on 1929-02-11.

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