---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 430e"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "430e"
heading: "Monuments and tablets within park; approval"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/430e"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LX — National Military Parks"
---

# §430e. Monuments and tablets within park; approval


The authorities of any [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) which had troops engaged in the Battle of Kings Mountain may enter the Kings Mountain National Military [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) for the purpose of ascertaining and marking the lines of battle of such troops, but before any such lines are permanently designated the position of the lines and the proposed methods of marking them by monuments, tablets, or otherwise shall be approved by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior. Any [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) organization or individual may, with the approval of the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior, erect monuments or place tablets within such [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3).


## Source credit

(Mar. 3, 1931, ch. 437, § 6, 46 Stat. 1508; 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 430a of this title.