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[CITE: 16USC460s-9]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
          SUBCHAPTER LXXVII--PICTURED ROCKS NATIONAL LAKESHORE
 
Sec. 460s-9. Property subject to condemnation


(a) Limitation on condemnation of improved or other property

    The Secretary shall be prohibited from acquiring by condemnation any 
(1) improved property within the inland buffer zone or (2) property 
within the inland buffer zone during all times when, in his judgment, 
such property is being used (A) for the growing and harvesting of timber 
under a scientific program of selective cutting and forest management, 
or (B) for commercial purposes, if such commercial purposes are the same 
such purposes for which such property is being used on December 31, 
1964, so long as the use of such improved or other property would 
further the purposes of this subchapter and such use does not impair the 
usefulness and attractiveness of the lakeshore.

(b) ``Improved property'' defined

    As used in this subchapter, the term ``improved property'' shall 
mean any one-family dwelling on which construction was begun before 
December 31, 1964, together with so much of the land on which the 
dwelling is situated (such land being in the same ownership as the 
dwelling) as shall be reasonably necessary for the enjoyment of the 
dwelling.

(Pub. L. 89-668, Sec. 10, Oct. 15, 1966, 80 Stat. 924.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 460s-5 of this title.
