---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 425d"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "425d"
heading: "Duties of commission"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/425d"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LX — National Military Parks"
---

# §425d. Duties of commission


It shall be the duty of the commissioners, under the direction of the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior, to survey, locate, and [preserve](/usc/16/698u–1.md?p=2) the lines of the opposing armies in said battles, to open, construct, and repair such roads, highways, paths, and other approaches as may be necessary to make the historical points accessible to the public and to students of said battles and for the purposes of the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), to ascertain and mark with historical monuments, markers, tablets, or otherwise, as the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior may determine, all breastworks, earthworks, gun emplacements, walls, or other defenses or shelters, lines of battle, location of troops, buildings, and other historical points of interest within the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) or in its vicinity, and to establish and construct such observation towers as the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior may deem necessary for said [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), and the said [commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) in establishing the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) shall have authority, under the direction of the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior to employ such labor and services at rates to be fixed by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior, and to obtain such supplies and materials as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of sections [425](/usc/16/425.md) to [425j](/usc/16/425j.md) of this title.


## Source credit

(Feb. 14, 1927, ch. 127, § 5, 44 Stat. 1093; Ex. Ord. No. 6166, § 2, June 10, 1933; Ex. Ord. No. 6228, § 1, July 28, 1933.)

## Notes

### Executive Documents

### Transfer of Functions

Transfer of administrative functions of park, see note set out under section 425 of this title.