---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 441d"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "441d"
heading: "Examinations, excavations, and gathering of objects of interest within park"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/441d"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXI — National and International Monuments and Memorials"
---

# §441d. Examinations, excavations, and gathering of objects of interest within park


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior is authorized to permit examinations, excavations, and gathering of objects of interest within said [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) by any [person](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b) or [persons](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b) whom he may deem properly qualified to conduct such examinations, excavations, or gatherings, subject to such rules and regulations as he may prescribe: Provided, That the examinations, excavations, and gatherings are undertaken only for the benefit of some reputable museum, university, college, or other recognized scientific or educational institution, with a view to increasing the knowledge of such objects and aiding the general advancement of geological and zoological science.


## Source credit

(Mar. 4, 1929, ch. 693, § 5, 45 Stat. 1555; Pub. L. 95–625, title VI, § 611, Nov. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3521.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

Word “park” substituted in text for “monument” pursuant to Pub. L. 95–625, § 611, which is classified to section 441e–1 of this title and which redesignated Badlands National Monument as Badlands National Park.