16 U.S.C. § 403d — Lease of lands within Shenandoah National Park and Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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The Secretary of the Interior can lease land inside Shenandoah National Park or Great Smoky Mountains National Park for up to two years. These leases go to people, or to schools or religious groups, who used or claimed the land before the park existed.

The Secretary of the Interior may lease land within the Shenandoah National Park and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Each lease can run for up to two years. The Secretary decides the conditions of the lease. Only certain tenants qualify: people, or educational or religious institutions, who were already occupying the land, or who had — or claim to have had — some ownership interest in it before the park was created.

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The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to lease lands within the Shenandoah National Park and Great Smoky Mountains National Park for periods not exceeding two years, upon such conditions as he may in his discretion deem proper, to persons and educational or religious institutions occupying same or who had or claim to have had some interest in the title to the same prior to the establishment of the park.

Source credit: (Feb. 16, 1928, ch. 59, § 2, 45 Stat. 109.)

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1928Enacted · Act of Feb. 16, 1928, ch. 59 · 45 Stat. 109

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