---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 159"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "159"
heading: "Establishment; boundaries"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/159"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XVIII — Saratoga National Historical Park"
---

# §159. Establishment; boundaries


When title to all the lands, structures, and other property in the [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) at Saratoga, New York, whereon was fought the Battle of Sara­toga during the War of the Revolution, shall have been vested in the United States, such [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) shall be, and it is, established, dedicated, and set apart as a public [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) for the benefit and inspiration of the people and shall be known as the Saratoga National Historical [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3): Provided, That such [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) shall include that part of the Saratoga Battlefield now belonging to the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of New York and any additional lands in the immediate vicinity thereof which the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior may, within six months after the approval of sections 159 to [159b](/usc/16/159b.md) of this title, designate as necessary or desirable for the purposes of sections 159 to [159b](/usc/16/159b.md) of this title.


## Source credit

(June 1, 1938, ch. 316, § 1, 52 Stat. 608.)