---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 429b–3"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "429b–3"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/429b-3"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LX — National Military Parks"
---

# §429b–3. Definitions


For purposes of sections [429b](/usc/16/429b.md) to [429b–5](/usc/16/429b–5.md) of this title—

- (1) The term “[improved property](/usc/16/251h.md?p=2)” means a detached, one-family dwelling, construction of which was begun before January 1, 1979, which is used for noncommercial residential purposes, together with not to exceed three acres of land on which the dwelling is situated and together with such additional lands or interests therein as the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) deems to be reasonably necessary for access thereto, such lands being in the same ownership as the dwelling, together with any structures accessory to the dwelling which are situated on such land.
- (2) The term “[park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3)” means the Manassas National [Battlefield Park](/usc/16/423l–1.md?p=b-1) established under sections [429b](/usc/16/429b.md) to [429b–5](/usc/16/429b–5.md) of this title.
- (3) The term “[Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1)” means the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior.
- (4) The term “owner” means the owner of record as of September 1, 1980.

## Source credit

(Apr. 17, 1954, ch. 153, § 4, as added Pub. L. 96–442, § 2, Oct. 13, 1980, 94 Stat. 1886.)