---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 178"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "178"
heading: "Hotel regulations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/178"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XX — Glacier National Park"
---

# §178. Hotel regulations


Any hotel erected on the land sold and conveyed to the Glacier [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) Hotel Company under authority of the Act of March 2, 1917, chapter 147, Thirty-ninth Statutes, page 994, shall be operated by the said Glacier [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) Hotel Company, its successors and assigns under such rules and regulations as the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior may prescribe for the conduct and operation of hotels within the Glacier National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3).


## Source credit

(Mar. 2, 1917, ch. 147, 39 Stat. 994.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section is from a proviso at the end of act Mar. 2, 1917. The preceding part of the act authorized the Secretary of the Interior to sell certain described lands to the hotel company mentioned herein and was omitted as temporary and executed.