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[Laws in effect as of January 2, 2001]
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  January 2, 2001 and January 28, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC19o]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
                SUBCHAPTER III--NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION
 
Sec. 19o. Promotion of local fundraising support


(a) Establishment

    The Foundation shall design and implement a comprehensive program to 
assist and promote philanthropic programs of support at the individual 
national park unit level.

(b) Implementation

    The program under subsection (a) of this section shall be 
implemented to--
        (1) assist in the creation of local nonprofit support 
    organizations; and
        (2) provide support, national consistency, and management-
    improving suggestions for local nonprofit support organizations.

(c) Program

    The program under subsection (a) of this section shall include the 
greatest number of national park units as is practicable.

(d) Requirements

    The program under subsection (a) of this section shall include, at a 
minimum--
        (1) a standard adaptable organizational design format to 
    establish and sustain responsible management of a local nonprofit 
    support organization for support of a national park unit;
        (2) standard and legally tenable bylaws and recommended money-
    handling procedures that can easily be adapted as applied to 
    individual national park units; and
        (3) a standard training curriculum to orient and expand the 
    operating expertise of personnel employed by local nonprofit support 
    organizations.

(e) Annual report

    The Foundation shall report the progress of the program under 
subsection (a) of this section in the annual report of the Foundation.

(f) Affiliations

                   (1) Charter or corporate bylaws

        Nothing in this section requires--
            (A) a nonprofit support organization or friends group to 
        modify current practices or to affiliate with the Foundation; or
            (B) a local nonprofit support organization, established as a 
        result of this section, to be bound through its charter or 
        corporate bylaws to be permanently affiliated with the 
        Foundation.

                          (2) Establishment

        An affiliation with the Foundation shall be established only at 
    the discretion of the governing board of a nonprofit organization.

(Pub. L. 90-209, Sec. 11, as added Pub. L. 105-391, title VII, Sec. 701, 
Nov. 13, 1998, 112 Stat. 3520.)
