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[CITE: 16USC468]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
     CHAPTER 1A--HISTORIC SITES, BUILDINGS, OBJECTS, AND ANTIQUITIES
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 468. National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United 
        States; creation; purpose
        
    In order to further the policy enunciated in sections 461 to 467 of 
this title, and to facilitate public participation in the preservation 
of sites, buildings, and objects of national significance or interest, 
there is created a charitable, educational, and nonprofit corporation, 
to be known as the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the 
United States, hereafter referred to as the ``National Trust''. The 
purposes of the National Trust shall be to receive donations of sites, 
buildings, and objects significant in American history and culture, to 
preserve and administer them for public benefit, to accept, hold, and 
administer gifts of money, securities, or other property of whatsoever 
character for the purpose of carrying out the preservation program, and 
to execute such other functions as are vested in it by sections 468 to 
468d of this title.

(Oct. 26, 1949, ch. 755, Sec. 1, 63 Stat. 927.)


                          Reservation of Rights

    Section 7 of act Oct. 26, 1949, provided that: ``The right to 
repeal, alter or amend this Act [sections 468 to 468d of this title] at 
any time is hereby expressly reserved, but no contract or individual 
right made or acquired shall thereby be divested or impaired.''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 468c, 468d, 470a, 5406 of 
this title.
