---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 1109"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "1109"
heading: "Court action; service of process"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/1109"
units:
  - "Chapter 22 — International Parks"
---

# §1109. Court action; service of process


In an action against the [Commission](/usc/16/1101.md?p=a) instituted in a district court of the United States, service of the summons and of the complaint upon the [Commission](/usc/16/1101.md?p=a) shall be made by delivering a copy thereof to the United States attorney for the district in which the action is brought, or to an assistant United States attorney, or to a clerical employee designated by the United States attorney to accept service in a writing filed with the clerk of the court, and by sending a copy of the summons and of the complaint to the [Commission](/usc/16/1101.md?p=a) by registered or certified mail.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 88–363, § 10, July 7, 1964, 78 Stat. 301.)