---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 344"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "344"
heading: "Establishment; maintenance"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/344"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XXXVIII — Zion National Park"
---

# §344. Establishment; maintenance


The Zion National Monument, in the county of Washington, [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Utah, is declared to be a national [park](/usc/16/284j.md?p=2) and dedicated as such for the benefit and enjoyment of the people, under the name of the Zion National [Park](/usc/16/284j.md?p=2), under which name the aforesaid national [park](/usc/16/284j.md?p=2) shall be maintained by allotment of funds heretofore or hereafter appropriated for the national monuments, until such time as an independent appropriation is made therefor by Congress.


## Source credit

(Nov. 19, 1919, ch. 110, § 1, 41 Stat. 356.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Recitation in this section as originally enacted of the fact that Zion National Monument was established under act June 8, 1906, ch. 3060, 34 Stat. 225, by Presidential proclamations of July 31, 1909, 36 Stat. 2498, and Mar. 18, 1918, 40 Stat. 1760, was omitted as historically obsolete.