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[CITE: 16USC8f]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
                   SUBCHAPTER I--NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
 
Sec. 8f. Roads leading to certain historical areas; ``State'' 
        defined
        
    The word ``State'' as used in section 8e of this title includes 
Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands.

(June 3, 1948, ch. 401, Sec. 2, 62 Stat. 334; Aug. 1, 1956, ch. 852, 
Sec. 5, 70 Stat. 908.)


                               Amendments

    1956--Act Aug. 1, 1956, inserted ``Guam'' after ``Puerto Rico''.


               Admission of Alaska and Hawaii to Statehood

    Alaska was admitted into the Union on Jan. 3, 1959, on issuance of 
Proc. No. 3269, Jan. 3, 1959, 24 F.R. 81, 73 Stat. c16, and Hawaii was 
admitted into the Union on Aug. 21, 1959, on issuance of Proc. No. 3309, 
Aug. 21, 1959, 24 F.R. 6868, 73 Stat. c74. For Alaska Statehood Law, see 
Pub. L. 85-508, July 7, 1958, 72 Stat. 339, set out as a note preceding 
section 21 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions. For Hawaii 
Statehood Law, see Pub. L. 86-3, Mar. 18, 1959, 73 Stat. 4, set out as a 
note preceding section 491 of Title 48.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

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