---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 422a–1"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "422a–1"
heading: "Acquisition of property"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/422a-1"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LX — National Military Parks"
---

# §422a–1. Acquisition of property


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion, to [acquire](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) by donation, purchase, or exchange lands, buildings, structures, and other property, or interests therein, which he may determine to be of historical interest in connection with the Moores Creek National Battlefield, the title to such property or interests to be satisfactory to the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior: Provided, That the [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) acquired pursuant to this section shall not exceed one hundred acres. All such property and interests, upon [acquisition](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) by the Federal Government, shall be a part of the Moores Creek National Battlefield and shall be subject to all laws and regulations applicable thereto.


## Source credit

(Sept. 27, 1944, ch. 417, § 1, 58 Stat. 746; Pub. L. 93–477, title IV, § 402, Oct. 26, 1974, 88 Stat. 1447; Pub. L. 96–344, § 12, Sept. 8, 1980, 94 Stat. 1136.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1974—Pub. L. 93–477 substituted “acquire by donation, purchase, or exchange” for “accept in behalf of the United States donations of”, and “acquired” for “to be accepted”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

“Battlefield” substituted in text for “Military Park” on authority of Pub. L. 96–344, § 12, Sept. 8, 1980, 94 Stat. 1136, which redesignated Moores Creek National Military Park as Moores Creek National Battlefield.