---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 1102"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "1102"
heading: "Joint United States-Canadian Commission; establishment; functions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/1102"
units:
  - "Chapter 22 — International Parks"
---

# §1102. Joint United States-Canadian Commission; establishment; functions


There shall be established, in accordance with the agreement between the Governments of the United States and Canada, signed January 22, 1964, a joint United States-Canadian [Commission](/usc/16/1101.md?p=a), to be called the “Roosevelt Campobello International [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) [Commission](/usc/16/1101.md?p=a),” which shall have as its functions—

- (a) to accept title from the Hammer family to the former Roosevelt estate comprising the Roosevelt home and other grounds on Campobello Island;
- (b) to [take](/usc/16/3102.md?p=18) the necessary measures to restore the Roosevelt home as closely as possible to its condition when it was occupied by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt;
- (c) to administer as a [memorial](/usc/16/450ss–1.md?p=2) the Roosevelt Campobello International [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) comprising the Roosevelt estate and such other lands as may be acquired.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 88–363, § 3, July 7, 1964, 78 Stat. 299.)