---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 112"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "112"
heading: "Control; regulations; prehistoric ruins"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/112"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XII — Mesa Verde National Park"
---

# §112. Control; regulations; prehistoric ruins


Mesa Verde National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) shall be under the exclusive control of the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior, whose duty it shall be to prescribe such rules and regulations and establish such service as he may deem necessary for the care and management of the same. Such regulations shall provide specifically for the preservation from injury or spoliation of the ruins and other works and relics of prehistoric or primitive man within said [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3).


## Source credit

(June 29, 1906, ch. 3607, § 2, 34 Stat. 617.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

As enacted by act June 29, 1906, this section began with a clause naming the park which was stricken out and inserted as the last sentence of section 111 of this title.