---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 449"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "449"
heading: "Acceptance of donations of land and funds; acquisition of land"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/449"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXI — National and International Monuments and Memorials"
---

# §449. Acceptance of donations of land and funds; acquisition of land


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior be, and he is, authorized to accept donations of land, interests in land and/or buildings, structures, and other property within the boundaries of said national monument as determined and fixed hereunder, and donations of funds for the purchase and/or maintenance thereof, the title and evidence of title to lands acquired to be satisfactory to the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior: Provided, That he may [acquire](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) on behalf of the United States out of any donated funds, by purchase at prices deemed by him reasonable, or by condemnation under the provisions of [section 3113 of title 40](/usc/40/3113.md), such tracts of land within the said national monument as may be necessary for the completion thereof.


## Source credit

(June 18, 1934, ch. 573, § 2, 48 Stat. 983.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

“Section 3113 of title 40” substituted in text for “the Act of August 1, 1888” on authority of Pub. L. 107–217, § 5(c), Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1303, the first section of which enacted Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works.