---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 366"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "366"
heading: "Collection of water on reservation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/366"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XL — Hot Springs National Park"
---

# §366. Collection of water on reservation


The authority conferred upon the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior to collect the hot water upon said Hot Springs National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) shall be so construed as to require water to be collected only where such collection is necessary for its proper distribution, and not where by gravity the same can be properly utilized.


## Source credit

(Mar. 3, 1891, ch. 533, § 6, 26 Stat. 844; Mar. 4, 1921, ch. 161, § 1, 41 Stat. 1407.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

“Hot Springs National Park” substituted in text for “Hot Springs Reservation” pursuant to act Mar. 4, 1921.