---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 430p"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "430p"
heading: "Right of States to enter and mark battle lines"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/430p"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LX — National Military Parks"
---

# §430p. Right of States to enter and mark battle lines


It shall be lawful for the authorities of any [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) having had troops at the Battle of Monocacy to enter upon the lands and approaches of the battlefield for the purpose of ascertaining and marking the line of battle of troops engaged therein: Provided, That before any such lines are permanently designated the position of the lines and the proposed methods of marking them by monuments, tablets, or otherwise, including the design and inscription for the same, shall be submitted to the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior and shall first receive written approval of the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1): Provided further, That no discrimination shall be made against any [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) as to the manner of designating lines, but any grant made to any [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior may be used by any other [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a).


## Source credit

(June 21, 1934, ch. 694, § 7, 48 Stat. 1200; Pub. L. 94–578, title III, § 319(7), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2738.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1976—Pub. L. 94–578 substituted “battlefield” for “Monocacy National Military Park” and “: Provided further,” for “, which approval shall be based upon formal written reports to be made to him in each case by the National Park Service: Provided,”.