---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 403a"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "403a"
heading: "Acceptance of title to lands"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/403a"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XLVI — Shenandoah National Park and Great Smoky Mountains National Park"
---

# §403a. Acceptance of title to lands


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion, to accept as hereinafter provided on behalf of the United States title to the lands referred to in [section 403 of this title](/usc/16/403.md) and to be purchased with the $1,200,000 which has been subscribed by the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Virginia and the Shenandoah National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) Association of Virginia and with other contributions for the purchase of lands in the Shenandoah National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A), and with the $1,066,693 which has been subscribed by the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Tennessee and the Great Smoky Mountains Conservation Association and by the Great Smoky Mountains (Incorporated) (North Carolina) and with other contributions for the purchase of lands in the Great Smoky Mountains National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A).


## Source credit

(May 22, 1926, ch. 363, § 2, 44 Stat. 616.)