---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 410ffff–3"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "410ffff–3"
heading: "Acquisition of real and personal property and services"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/410ffff-3"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LIX–DDD — Weir Farm National Historical Park"
---

# §410ffff–3. Acquisition of real and personal property and services

- (a) **Real and personal property—** The [Secretary](/usc/16/410fff–1.md?p=4) is authorized to [acquire](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) by donation, exchange, or purchase with donated or appropriated funds, the lands and improvements within the boundaries of the [historical park](/usc/16/410ffff.md?p=2), except that any such lands and improvements owned by the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Connecticut may be acquired only by donation. The [Secretary](/usc/16/410fff–1.md?p=4) may also [acquire](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) by the same methods personal property associated with, and appropriate for, the interpretation of the [historical park](/usc/16/410ffff.md?p=2): Provided, That the [Secretary](/usc/16/410fff–1.md?p=4) may [acquire](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) works of art associated with the Weir family, J. Alden Weir, and other artists who lived at or visited the site only by donation or purchase with donated funds.
- (b) **Other property, funds, and services—** The [Secretary](/usc/16/410fff–1.md?p=4) is authorized to accept and use donated funds, property, and services to carry out this subchapter.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 101–485, § 5, Oct. 31, 1990, 104 Stat. 1172; Pub. L. 116–305, § 2(b)(3), Jan. 5, 2021, 134 Stat. 4917.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2021—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 116–305 substituted “historical park” for “historic site” in two places.