---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 407n"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "407n"
heading: "Cooperative agreements between Secretary of the Interior and City of Philadelphia; contents"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/407n"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LI — Independence National Historical Park"
---

# §407n. Cooperative agreements between Secretary of the Interior and City of Philadelphia; contents


In furtherance of the general purposes of this subchapter as prescribed in [section 407m of this title](/usc/16/407m.md), the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior is authorized to enter into cooperative agreements with the city of Philadelphia to assist in the preservation and interpretation of the property known as the Independence Hall National Historic Site and with the Carpenters’ Company of Philadelphia to assist in the preservation and interpretation of Carpenters’ Hall, in connection with the Independence National Historical [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3). Such agreements shall contain, but shall not be limited to, provisions that the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior, through the National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) Service, shall have right of access at all reasonable times to all public portions of the property now within Independence Hall National Historic Site and to Carpenters’ Hall for the purpose of conducting visitors through such buildings and grounds and interpreting them to the public, that no changes or alterations shall be made in the property within the Independence Hall National Historic Site, including its buildings and grounds, or in Carpenters’ Hall, except by mutual agreement between the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior and the other parties to the contracts.


## Source credit

(June 28, 1948, ch. 687, § 2, 62 Stat. 1061.)

## Notes

### Executive Documents

### Transfer of Functions

For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.