16 U.S.C. § 49 — Rights of claimants and owners of lands included; laws and regulations applicable within park

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This law covers land inside the Sierra National Forest that used to be part of Yosemite National Park. People who already own or have patents on that land don't get the special "lieu-land scrip" benefit, but otherwise the land follows regular national forest laws. All national forest rules — including the power to redraw forest boundaries by presidential order — apply to this formerly-park land too.

This section deals with land described in sections 46 and 47 of this title, inside the Sierra National Forest, that was once part of Yosemite National Park. If someone already owns or holds a patent on that land, they don't get the benefit of the "lieu-land scrip" provisions that other land laws normally offer. Apart from that, the land is treated in every other way like regular national forest land, under national forest laws and regulations. All laws, rules, and regulations that apply to national forests — including the President's power to change forest boundaries by proclamation — take effect on this land that sections 46 and 47 removed from Yosemite National Park, except where this section says otherwise.

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

None of the lands patented and in private ownership in the area included under sections 46 and 47 of this title in the Sierra National Forest shall have the privileges of the lieu-land scrip provisions of the land laws, but otherwise to be in all respects under the laws and regulations affecting the national forests. All laws, rules, and regulations affecting national forests, including the right to change the boundaries thereof by Executive proclamation, shall take effect and be in force within the limits of the territory excluded by sections 46 and 47 of this title from the Yosemite National Park, except as otherwise provided.

Source credit: (Feb. 7, 1905, ch. 547, § 2, 33 Stat. 703; June 11, 1906, No. 27, § 2, 34 Stat. 832; Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, 34 Stat. 1269.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1905Enacted · Act of Feb. 7, 1905, ch. 547 · 33 Stat. 703
1907Amended · Act of Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907 · 34 Stat. 1269

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