---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 410vv–6"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "410vv–6"
heading: "Reservation of use and occupancy"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/410vv-6"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LIX–T — Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park"
---

# §410vv–6. Reservation of use and occupancy


In acquiring land within the historic zone, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) may permit an [owner](/usc/16/429b–3.md?p=4) of improved residential property within the boundaries of the historic zone to retain a right of use and occupancy of such property for noncommercial residential purposes for a term not to exceed 25 years or a term ending at the death of the [owner](/usc/16/429b–3.md?p=4), or the [owner](/usc/16/429b–3.md?p=4)’s spouse, whichever occurs last. The [owner](/usc/16/429b–3.md?p=4) shall elect the term to be reserved.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–350, § 8, Aug. 26, 1992, 106 Stat. 936.)