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

# §403k–1. Laws applicable


Subject to valid existing rights, all lands within the boundaries of Great Smoky Mountains National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), as redefined by sections [403k](/usc/16/403k.md) to [403k–2](/usc/16/403k–2.md) of this title, hereafter shall be a part of the national [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) and shall be subject to all laws, rules, and regulations applicable to the national [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3). All federally owned lands eliminated from the national [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) by said sections shall hereafter be a part of the Pisgah National Forest and shall be subject to all laws, rules, and regulations relating to such national forest.


## Source credit

(July 26, 1950, ch. 492, § 2, 64 Stat. 378.)