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.