---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 410v"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "410v"
heading: "Appointment and composition of advisory commission"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/410v"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LV — Minute Man National Historical Park"
---

# §410v. Appointment and composition of advisory commission


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior is authorized to appoint an advisory [commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) of five members to advise him on the development of Minute Man National Historical [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), to consist of one member to be recommended by the selectmen of each of the towns of Concord, Lexington, and Lincoln, Massachusetts; one member to be recommended by the Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; and one member to be designated by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 86–321, § 4, Sept. 21, 1959, 73 Stat. 591.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Termination of Advisory Commissions

Advisory commissions in existence on Jan. 5, 1973, to terminate not later than the expiration of the 2-year period following Jan. 5, 1973, unless, in the case of a commission established by the President or an officer of the Federal Government, such commission is renewed by appropriate action prior to the expiration of such 2-year period, or in the case of a commission established by the Congress, its duration is otherwise provided for by law. See sections 1001(2) and 1013 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.