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

# §430o. Gifts and donations; acceptance by Secretary


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior,[^1] is authorized to receive gifts and contributions from [States](/usc/16/544.md?p=r), Territories, societies, organizations, and individuals for the battlefield for carrying out the provisions of sections [430j](/usc/16/430j.md) to [430m](/usc/16/430m.md) and 430o to [430s](/usc/16/430s.md) of this title.


## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. The comma probably should not appear.

## Source credit

(June 21, 1934, ch. 694, § 6, 48 Stat. 1199; Pub. L. 94–578, title III, § 319(6), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2738.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1976—Pub. L. 94–578 substituted “The Secretary of the Interior, is authorized to receive gifts and contributions from States, Territories, societies, organizations, and individuals for the battlefield” for “The National Park Service, acting through the Secretary of the Interior, is authorized to receive gifts and contributions from States, Territories, societies, organizations, and individuals for the Monocacy National Military Park: Provided, That all contributions of money received shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States and credited to a fund to be designated ‘Monocacy National Military Park fund’, which fund shall be applied to and expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior,”.