---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 410kkk–4"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "410kkk–4"
heading: "Private property protection"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/410kkk-4"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LIX–II — Lewis and Clark National Historical Park"
---

# §410kkk–4. Private property protection

- (a) **Access to private property—** Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to—
  - (1) require any private property [owner](/usc/16/429b–3.md?p=4) to permit public access (including Federal, [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a), or local government access) to such private property; or
  - (2) modify any provision of Federal, [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a), or local law with regard to public access to or use of [private lands](/usc/16/620e.md?p=6).
- (b) **Liability—** Designation of the [park](/usc/16/410kkk.md?p=1) shall not be considered to create any liability, or to have any effect on any liability under any other law, of any private property [owner](/usc/16/429b–3.md?p=4) with respect to any [persons](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b) injured on such private property.
- (c) **Recognition of authority to control land use—** Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to modify any authority of Federal, [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a), or local governments to regulate the use of private land within the boundary of the [park](/usc/16/410kkk.md?p=1).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 108–387, title I, § 106, Oct. 30, 2004, 118 Stat. 2236.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This subchapter, referred to in subsecs. (a) and (c), was in the original “this title”, meaning title I of Pub. L. 108–387, Oct. 30, 2004, 118 Stat. 2234, which is classified principally to this subchapter. For complete classification of title I to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 410kkk of this title and Tables.