16 U.S.C. § 392 — Acquisition of privately owned lands

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Hawaii's territorial governor can buy or exchange privately owned land inside Hawaii National Park's boundaries, using territorial money. This includes buying permanent easements and rights-of-way. A separate law about exchanging public land does not apply to these land exchanges.

The Governor of the Territory of Hawaii is authorized to acquire, at the Territory's expense, all privately owned land within Hawaii National Park's boundaries (as section 391 defines them) — whether by exchange or another method. This includes acquiring, in fee simple, all necessary perpetual easements and rights-of-way or roadways over or to that land, or any part of it. Section 73 of the 1900 Act that set up Hawaii's territorial government (as amended in 1910), which normally governs exchanges of public land, does not apply to these particular exchanges of privately owned land.

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The governor of the Territory of Hawaii is authorized to acquire, at the expense of the Territory of Hawaii, by exchange or otherwise, all privately owned lands lying within the boundaries of the Hawaii National Park as defined by section 391 of this title, and all necessary perpetual easements and rights-of-way, or roadways, in fee simple, over or to said land or any part thereof, but the provisions of section 73 of an Act entitled “An Act to provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii,” approved April 30, 1900, as amended by an Act approved May 27, 1910, relating to exchanges of public lands shall not apply in the acquisition, by exchange, of the privately owned lands herein referred to.

Source credit: (Feb. 27, 1920, ch. 89, §§ 1, 2, 41 Stat. 452, 453.)

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1920Enacted · Act of Feb. 27, 1920, ch. 89 · 41 Stat. 452, 453

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 89 on 1920-02-27.

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