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[CITE: 16USC8e]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
                   SUBCHAPTER I--NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
 
Sec. 8e. Conveyance to States of roads leading to certain 
        historical areas; conditions; jurisdiction
        
    The Secretary of the Interior is authorized in his discretion, 
subject to such conditions as may seem to him proper, to convey by 
proper quitclaim deed to any State, county, municipality, or proper 
agency thereof, in which the same is located, all the right, title, and 
interest of the United States in and to any Government owned or 
controlled road leading to any national cemetery, national military 
park, national historical park, national battlefield park, or national 
historic site administered by the National Park Service. Prior to the 
delivery of any conveyance under this section and section 8f of this 
title, the State, county, or municipality to which the conveyance 
authorized in this section is to be made shall notify the Secretary of 
the Interior in writing of its willingness to accept and maintain the 
road or roads included in such conveyance. Upon the execution and 
delivery of any conveyance authorized in this section, any jurisdiction 
heretofore ceded to the United States by a State over the roads conveyed 
shall thereby cease and determine and shall thereafter vest and be in 
the particular State in which such roads are located.

(June 3, 1948, ch. 401, Sec. 1, 62 Stat. 334.)

                          Transfer of Functions

    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, Government Organization and Employees.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 1c, 8f of this title.
