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[CITE: 16USC201]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
             SUBCHAPTER XXII--LASSEN VOLCANIC NATIONAL PARK
 
Sec. 201. Establishment; boundaries; trespassers; entries under 
        land laws; indemnity lands
        
    All those certain tracts, pieces, or parcels of land lying and being 
situate in the State of California and within the boundaries 
particularly described as follows, to wit: Beginning at the northeast 
corner of section 3, township 31, range 6 east, Mount Diablo meridian, 
California; thence southerly to the southeast corner of said section; 
thence easterly to the northeast corner of the northwest quarter of 
section 11, said township; thence southerly to the southeast corner of 
the southwest quarter of section 14, said township; thence easterly to 
the northeast corner of the northwest quarter of section 24, said 
township; thence southerly to the southeast corner of the southwest 
quarter of section 25, said township; thence westerly to the southwest 
corner of section 26, said township; thence southerly to the southeast 
corner of section 34, said township; thence westerly along the sixth 
standard parallel north, allowing for the proper offsets, to the 
northeast corner of section 3, township 30 north, range 6 east; thence 
southerly to the southeast corner of section 27, said township; thence 
westerly to the southwest corner of the southeast quarter of section 28, 
said township; thence northerly to the northwest corner of the southeast 
quarter of said section; thence westerly to the southwest corner of the 
northwest quarter of said section; thence northerly to the northwest 
corner of said section; thence westerly to the southwest corner of the 
southeast quarter of section 20, said township; thence northerly to the 
northwest corner of the southeast quarter of said section; thence 
westerly to the range line between ranges 5 and 6 east; thence southerly 
along said range line to the southeast corner of township 30 north, 
range 5 east; thence westerly along the township line between townships 
29 and 30 north to the southwest corner of section 33, township 30 
north, range 5 east; thence northerly to the northwest corner of said 
section; thence westerly to the southwest corner of the southeast 
quarter of section 29, said township; thence northerly to the northwest 
corner of the southeast quarter of said section; thence westerly to the 
southwest corner of the northwest quarter of said section; thence 
northerly to the northwest corner of said section; thence westerly to 
the southwest corner of the southeast quarter of section 20, township 30 
north, range 4 east; thence northerly to the northwest corner of the 
southeast quarter of section 8, said township; thence easterly to the 
northeast corner of the southwest quarter of section 9, said township; 
thence northerly to the township line between townships 30 and 31 north; 
thence easterly along the sixth standard parallel north, allowing for 
the proper offsets, to the southwest corner of section 33, township 31 
north, range 4 east; thence northerly to the northwest corner of section 
21, said township; thence easterly to the range line between ranges 4 
and 5 east; thence northerly along said range line to the northwest 
corner of fractional section 18, township 31 north, range 5 east; thence 
easterly to the southwest corner of section 12, said township; thence 
northerly to the northwest corner of section 1, said township; thence 
easterly along the township line between townships 31 and 32 north to 
the northeast corner of section 3, township 31 north, range 6 east, the 
place of beginning, are reserved and withdrawn from settlement, 
occupancy, disposal, or sale, under the laws of the United States, and 
said tracts are dedicated and set apart as a public park or pleasuring 
ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people of the United States 
under the name and to be known and designated as the Lassen Volcanic 
National Park; and all persons who shall locate or settle upon or occupy 
the same, or any part thereof, except as hereinafter provided, shall be 
considered trespassers and be removed therefrom. Nothing herein 
contained shall affect any valid claim, location, or entry existing 
under the land laws of the United States before August 9, 1916, or the 
rights of any such claimant, locator, or entryman to the full use and 
enjoyment of his land. No lands located within the park boundaries held 
prior to August 9, 1916, in private, municipal, or State ownership shall 
be affected by or subject to the provisions of this section and sections 
202, and 203 of this title. No lands within the limits of said park 
created belonging to or claimed by any railroad or other corporation 
having or claiming on August 9, 1916, the right of indemnity selection 
by virtue of any law or contract whatsoever shall be used as a basis for 
indemnity selection in any State or Territory whatsoever for any loss 
sustained by reason of the creation of said park.

(Aug. 9, 1916, ch. 302, Sec. 1, 39 Stat. 442; Jan. 26, 1931, ch. 47, 
Sec. 4, 46 Stat. 1043; Pub. L. 92-510, Sec. 4, Oct. 19, 1972, 86 Stat. 
918.)

                       References in Text

    The land laws of the United States, referred to in text, are 
classified generally to Title 43, Public Lands.


                               Amendments

    1972--Pub. L. 92-510 struck out provision that ``The United States 
Reclamation Service may enter upon and utilize for flowage or other 
purposes any area within said park which may be necessary for the 
development and maintenance of a Government reclamation project.''
    1931--Act Jan. 26, 1931, forbade acquisition of rights of way for 
steam and electric railways, automobiles or wagon roads within the park.

                          Transfer of Functions

    For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies 
of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of 
the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, 
Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in 
the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.


                       Acceptance of Certain Land

    Act May 21, 1928, ch. 658, 45 Stat. 644, provided that: ``The 
Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to accept on 
behalf of the United States, title to the northeast quarter northeast 
quarter section 27, township 30 north, range 5 east, Mount Diablo base 
and meridian, situate within the exterior boundaries of Lassen Volcanic 
National Park, from the State of California, and in exchange therefor 
may patent an area of unreserved, vacant, nonmineral public land of 
equal value situate in the same State. The land which may be acquired by 
the United States under this Act shall, upon acceptance of title, become 
a part of Lassen Volcanic National Park.''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 201b, 203, 204c, 205a of 
this title.
