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

# §430y. Spanish War Memorial Park; establishment


When title to such lands located on Davis Island in the city of Tampa, Florida, as shall be designated by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior, in the exercise of his judgment and discretion as necessary and suitable for the purpose, shall have been vested in the United States, said [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) shall be set apart as the Spanish War [Memorial](/usc/16/450ss–1.md?p=2) [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), for the benefit and inspiration of the people: Provided, That said lands shall be donated without cost to the United States by the city of Tampa, Florida, and the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior is authorized to accept such conveyance of lands.


## Source credit

(Aug. 20, 1935, ch. 575, § 1, 49 Stat. 661.)