CITE

    16 USC Sec. 45c                                             01/05/2009

EXPCITE

    TITLE 16 - CONSERVATION
    CHAPTER 1 - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
    SUBCHAPTER VI - SEQUOIA AND YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARKS

HEAD

    Sec. 45c. Prior claims, locations, and entries; permits for use of
      natural resources

STATUTE

      Nothing herein contained shall affect any valid existing claim,
    location, or entry established prior to July 3, 1926, under the
    land laws of the United States, whether for homestead, mineral,
    right-of-way, or any other purpose whatsoever, or shall affect the
    rights of any such claimant, locator, or entryman to the full use
    and enjoyment of his land: Provided, That under rules and
    regulations to be prescribed by him the Secretary of the Interior
    may issue permits to any bona fide claimant, entryman, landowner,
    or lessee of land within the boundaries herein established to
    secure timber for use on and for the improvement of his land; and
    he shall also have authority to issue, under rules and regulations
    to be prescribed by him, grazing permits and authorize the grazing
    of livestock on the lands within said park at fees not to exceed
    those charged by the Forest Service on adjacent areas, so long as
    such timber cutting and grazing are not detrimental to the primary
    purpose for which such park is created: Provided, That no permit,
    license, lease, or authorization for dams, conduits, reservoirs,
    power houses, transmission lines, or other works for storage or
    carriage of water, or for the development, transmission, or
    utilization of power within the limits of said park as constituted
    by said sections, shall be granted or made without specific
    authority of Congress.

SOURCE

    (July 3, 1926, ch. 744, Sec. 3, 44 Stat. 820.)

REFERENCES IN TEXT

      Herein, referred to in text, means act July 3, 1926, which is
    classified to sections 45a, 45b to 45e, and 688 of this title. For
    complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.