---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 410a"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "410a"
heading: "Acceptance of title to lands"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/410a"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LIV — Everglades National Park"
---

# §410a. Acceptance of title to lands


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion and upon submission of evidence of title satisfactory to him, to accept on behalf of the United States, title to the lands referred to in [section 410 of this title](/usc/16/410.md) as may be deemed by him necessary or desirable for national-[park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) purposes: Provided, That no land for said [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) shall be accepted until exclusive jurisdiction over the entire [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A), in form satisfactory to the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior, shall have been ceded by the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Florida to the United States.


## Source credit

(May 30, 1934, ch. 371, § 2, 48 Stat. 816.)