---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 428g"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "428g"
heading: "Occupation of lands by former owners"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/428g"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LX — National Military Parks"
---

# §428g. Occupation of lands by former owners


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior is authorized to enter into agreements, upon such nominal terms as he may prescribe, with such present [owners](/usc/16/429b–3.md?p=4) of the land as may desire to remain upon it, to occupy and cultivate their present holdings, upon condition that they will [preserve](/usc/16/698u–1.md?p=2) the present buildings and roads, and the present outlines of field and forest, and that they will only cut trees or underbrush under such regulations as the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) may prescribe, and that they will assist in caring for and protecting all tablets, monuments, or such other artificial works as may from time to time be erected by proper authority.


## Source credit

(Mar. 26, 1928, ch. 248, § 8, 45 Stat. 368; Ex. Ord. No. 6166, § 2, June 10, 1933; Ex. Ord. No. 6228, § 1, July 28, 1933; Pub. L. 86–738, § 5, Sept. 8, 1960, 74 Stat. 876.)

## Notes

### Executive Documents

### Transfer of Functions

Transfer of administrative functions of park, see note set out under section 428 of this title.