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[CITE: 16USC215]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
   SUBCHAPTER XXIII--ABRAHAM LINCOLN BIRTHPLACE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE
 
Sec. 215. Improvements and preservation of lands and buildings

    For the purpose of protecting from disintegration and of improving, 
beautifying, and preserving the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National 
Historic Site or Reservation established under sections 211 to 214 of 
this title, the National Park Service is authorized and directed to 
provide for (1) the improvement of such existing roadways, walks, and 
buildings in such park or reservation; and (2) the planting of such 
trees, plants, and shrubbery; the construction of such additional 
roadways, walks, and buildings, and of such fences, parking spaces, 
drainage structures, culverts, and bridges; and the making of such other 
improvements, as in his judgment may be necessary for the preservation, 
beautification, and protection from disintegration of such park or 
reservation, including the log cabin in which Abraham Lincoln was born 
and the memorial hall inclosing the same, and which may serve to render 
such park or reservation convenient for the appropriate use and 
enjoyment by the public:

(Feb. 11, 1929, ch. 176, Sec. 1, 45 Stat. 1162; 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.)

                         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 No. 6166, as amended by Executive Order No. 6228, 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 section 216 of this title.
