---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 179"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "179"
heading: "Donations of buildings and other property"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/179"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XX — Glacier National Park"
---

# §179. Donations of buildings and other property


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion, to accept buildings, moneys, or other property which may be useful in the betterment of the administration and affairs of the Glacier National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) under his supervision, and which may be donated for [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) purposes. He may accept patented lands or rights-of-way over patented lands in the Glacier National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) that may be donated for [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) purposes.


## Source credit

(July 1, 1916, ch. 209, § 1, 39 Stat. 308; June 12, 1917, ch. 27, § 1, 40 Stat. 151.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

The first sentence of this section is from section 1 of act June 12, 1917, and the last sentence from section 1 of act July 1, 1916.