---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 424a"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "424a"
heading: "Acceptance of donations of lands"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/424a"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LX — National Military Parks"
---

# §424a. Acceptance of donations of lands


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion, to accept in behalf of the United States lands, easements, and buildings as may be donated for an [addition](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-2) to the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) lying within what is known as the “Chattanooga- Lookout Mountain [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3)” (a corporation, Adolph S. Ochs, president) and/or any lands within one mile of said Chattanooga-Lookout Mountain [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) in the [States](/usc/16/544.md?p=r) of Tennessee and Georgia.


## Source credit

(May 4, 1934, ch. 218, § 1, 48 Stat. 666.)