---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 141c"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "141c"
heading: "Disposal of surplus buffalo and elk"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/141c"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XV — Wind Cave National Park"
---

# §141c. Disposal of surplus buffalo and elk

- (a) The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion and under regulations to be prescribed by him, to sell or otherwise dispose of the surplus buffalo and elk of the Wind Cave National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) herd.
- (b) All moneys received from the sale of any such surplus animals, or products thereof, shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States as miscellaneous receipts.

## Source credit

(June 16, 1938, ch. 459, §§ 1, 2, 52 Stat. 708.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Subsecs. (a) and (b) of this section constitute sections 1 and 2, respectively, of act June 16, 1938.
