---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 407"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "407"
heading: "Establishment; description of area"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/407"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter L — Carlsbad Caverns National Park"
---

# §407. Establishment; description of area


The tract of land known prior to May 14, 1930, as the Carlsbad Cave National Monument, in the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of New Mexico, established and designated as a national monument under the Act of June 8, 1906, entitled “An Act for the preservation of American antiquities,”[^1] and by presidential proclamation of October 25, 1923, is declared to be a national [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) and dedicated as a public [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) for the benefit and enjoyment of the people under the name of the Carlsbad Caverns National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), under which name the aforesaid national [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) shall be entitled to receive and to use all moneys heretofore or hereafter appropriated for the Carlsbad Cave National Monument.


## Footnotes

[^1]: See References in Text note below.

## Source credit

(May 14, 1930, ch. 272, § 1, 46 Stat. 279.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Act of June 8, 1906, entitled “An Act for the preservation of American antiquities,”, referred to in text, is act June 8, 1906, ch. 3060, 34 Stat. 225, known as the Antiquities Act of 1906, which was classified generally to sections 431, 432, and 433 of this title. The Act was repealed and restated as section 1866(b) of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure, and sections 320301(a) to (c), 320302, and 320303 of Title 54, National Park Service and Related Programs, by Pub. L. 113–287, §§ 3, 4(a)(1), 7, Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3094, 3260, 3272. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables. For disposition of former sections of this title, see Disposition Table preceding section 100101 of Title 54.

The presidential proclamation of October 25, 1923, referred to in text, is Proc. No. 1923, 43 Stat. 1929.