16 U.S.C. § 430g — Gettysburg National Military Park

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This section creates and names the "Gettysburg National Park" from about 800 acres given by the Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association, plus any other battlefield land the U.S. later acquires. The Secretary of the Interior protects its monuments, sets visiting rules, and may lease park land for farming.

This section names and creates the park, calling it the "Gettysburg National Park." It includes the roughly 800 acres of Gettysburg battlefield land that the Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association already gave to the United States, plus any other battlefield land the United States has acquired or later acquires by purchase or condemnation. This section does not take away rights any state or military organization already earned to the ground where its monuments or markers stand, or their right-of-way to reach them. The Secretary of the Interior must set up and enforce proper rules for keeping, preserving, and caring for the monuments built — or that may later be built — inside the park. Those rules must let visitors reach all the monuments and the surrounding grounds, on the days and during the hours the Secretary sets. The Secretary may also lease park land, at the Secretary's discretion, to former owners or other people for farming. Money from those leases goes, through the proper disbursing officer, toward maintaining the park.

the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

The lands heretofore conveyed by the Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association to the United States, embracing about 800 acres, more or less, and being a considerable part of the battlefield of Gettysburg, and such other lands on the battlefield as the United States has heretofore acquired or shall hereafter acquire by purchase or condemnation proceedings, shall be designated and known as the “Gettysburg National Park.” Nothing contained in this section shall be deemed and held to prejudice the rights acquired by any State or by any military organization to the ground on which its monuments or markers are placed, nor the right-of-way to the same. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to establish and enforce proper regulations for the custody, preservation, and care of the monuments erected or which may be hereafter erected within the limits of the said national military park; and such rules shall provide for convenient access by visitors to all such monuments within the park, and the ground included therein, on such days and within such hours as may be designated and authorized by the Secretary of the Interior. The Secretary of the Interior may lease the lands of the park at his discretion either to former owners or other persons for agricultural purposes, the proceeds to be applied by the Secretary of the Interior, through the proper disbursing officer, to the maintenance of the park.

Source credit: (Feb. 11, 1895, ch. 80, 28 Stat. 651; June 4, 1897, ch. 2, § 1, 30 Stat. 44; Ex. Ord. No. 6166, § 2, June 10, 1933; Ex. Ord. No. 6228, § 1, July 28, 1933; Pub. L. 89–554, § 8(a), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 637.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1895Enacted · Act of Feb. 11, 1895, ch. 80 · 28 Stat. 651
1897Amended · Act of June 4, 1897, ch. 2 · 30 Stat. 44
1966Amended · Pub. L. 89-554 · 80 Stat. 637

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 80 on 1895-02-11.

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