---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 423h"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "423h"
heading: "Report of completion; superintendent of battlefield"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/423h"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LX — National Military Parks"
---

# §423h. Report of completion; superintendent of battlefield


Upon completion of the [acquisition](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) of the land and the work of the [commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c), the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior shall render a report thereon to Congress, and thereafter the battlefield shall be placed in charge of a superintendent at a salary to be fixed by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior and paid out of the appropriation available for the maintenance of the battlefield.


## Source credit

(July 3, 1926, ch. 746, § 9, 44 Stat. 823; Ex. Ord. No. 6166, § 2, June 10, 1933; Ex. Ord. No. 6228, § 1, July 28, 1933; Pub. L. 87–603, § 1, Aug. 24, 1962, 76 Stat. 403.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

“Battlefield” substituted in text for “park” in view of redesignation of Petersburg National Military Park as Petersburg National Military Battlefield by Pub. L. 87–603. See section 423h–1 of this title.

### Executive Documents

### Transfer of Functions

Transfer of administrative functions of park, see note set out under section 423 of this title.