---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 410aaa–28"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "410aaa–28"
heading: "Visitor center"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/410aaa-28"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LIX–Y — California Desert Lands Parks, Preserve, and Off-Highway Vehicle Recreation Areas"
  - "Part B — Joshua Tree National Park"
---

# §410aaa–28. Visitor center

- (a) **In general—** The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) may [acquire](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) not more than 5 acres of land and interests in land, and improvements on the land and interests, outside the boundaries of the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), in the unincorporated village of Joshua Tree, for the purpose of operating a visitor center.
- (b) **Boundary—** The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall modify the boundary of the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) to include the land acquired under this section as a noncontiguous parcel.
- (c) **Administration—** Land and facilities acquired under this section—
  - (1) may include the property owned (as of March 12, 2019) by the Joshua Tree National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) Association and commonly referred to as the “Joshua Tree National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) Visitor Center”;
  - (2) shall be administered by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) as part of the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3); and
  - (3) may be acquired only with the consent of the [owner](/usc/16/429b–3.md?p=4), by donation, purchase with donated or appropriated funds, or exchange.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–433, title IV, § 408, as added Pub. L. 116–9, title I, § 1433(e), Mar. 12, 2019, 133 Stat. 701.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### “Secretary” Defined

Section 103 of Pub. L. 103–433 provided in part that in this subchapter “Secretary” means the Secretary of the Interior.