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[CITE: 16USC430k]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
                 SUBCHAPTER LX--NATIONAL MILITARY PARKS
 
Sec. 430k. Condemnation proceedings; purchase without 
        condemnation; acceptance of donations of land
        
    The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to cause condemnation 
proceedings to be instituted in the name of the United States under the 
provisions of sections 257 and 258 of title 40, to acquire title to the 
lands, interests therein, or rights pertaining thereto within the said 
battlefield, and the United States shall be entitled to immediate 
possession upon the filing of the petition in condemnation in the United 
States District Court for the District of Maryland: Provided, That when 
the owner of such lands, interests therein, or rights pertaining thereto 
shall fix a price for the same, which, in the opinion of the Secretary 
of the Interior, shall be reasonable, the Secretary may purchase the 
same without further delay: Provided further, That the Secretary of the 
Interior is authorized to accept, on behalf of the United States, 
donations of lands, interests therein, or rights pertaining thereto 
required for the battlefield: And provided further, That title and 
evidence of title to lands and interests therein acquired for said 
battlefield shall be satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior.

(June 21, 1934, ch. 694, Sec. 2, 48 Stat. 1199; Pub. L. 94-578, title 
III, Sec. 319(2), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2738.)

                       References in Text

    Section 258 of title 40, referred to in text, was omitted from the 
Code as superseded by rule 71A of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 
set out in the Appendix to Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure.


                               Amendments

    1976--Pub. L. 94-578 substituted ``battlefield'' for ``Monocacy 
National Military Park'' wherever appearing.

                         Change of Name

    ``Battlefield'' substituted in text for ``park'' in view of 
redesignation of Monocacy National Military Park as Monocacy National 
Battlefield by Pub. L. 94-578, Sec. 319(1), set out as section 430j of 
this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 430l, 430o, 430s of this 
title.
