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[CITE: 16USC214]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
   SUBCHAPTER XXIII--ABRAHAM LINCOLN BIRTHPLACE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE
 
Sec. 214. Rules and regulations

    Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site shall be under the 
control of the National Park Service and administered under such 
regulations not inconsistent with law as it may from time to time 
prescribed.

(July 17, 1916, ch. 247, Sec. 4, 39 Stat. 386; Ex. Ord. No. 6166, 
Sec. 2, June 10, 1933; Ex. Ord. No. 6228, Sec. 1, July 28, 1933; Mar. 2, 
1934, ch. 38, Sec. 1, 48 Stat. 389; Aug. 11, 1939, ch. 686, 53 Stat. 
1405; Pub. L. 86-231, Sept. 8, 1959, 73 Stat. 466.)

                          Codification

    As originally enacted, this section read as follows: ``Upon the 
passage of this Act and the vesting of the title to the property 
accepted thereunder in the United States, it shall be under the control 
of the Secretary of War and administered under such regulations not 
inconsistent with law as he may from time to time prescribe.'' Sections 
211 and 212 of this title, refer to the lands as a national park or 
reservation.
    Prefixes making the provisions of this section effective, upon the 
passage of this Act and the vesting of the title to the property 
accepted, have been omitted as temporary.

                         Change of Name

    Pub. L. 86-231 substituted ``Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National 
Historic Site'' for ``Abraham Lincoln National Historical Park''.
    Act Aug. 11, 1939, substituted ``Abraham Lincoln National Historical 
Park'' for ``Abraham Lincoln National Park''.

                          Transfer of Functions

    All national parks, national monuments, and national cemeteries 
consolidated in an office of National Parks, Buildings and Reservations 
in Department of the Interior, at head of which should be a Director of 
National Parks, Buildings and Reservations, and cemeteries and parks of 
War Department transferred to Department of the Interior by Executive 
Order 6166, Sec. 2, as amended by Executive Order 6228, Sec. 1, set out 
in a note under section 901 of Title 5, Government Organization and 
Employees. This service designated the National Park Service in 
Department of the Interior by act Mar. 2, 1934.
    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.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 215, 217, 218a of this 
title.
