---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 450ll–2"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "450ll–2"
heading: "Maintenance of museum; provision for parks, construction of roads and use of markers"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/450ll-2"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXI — National and International Monuments and Memorials"
---

# §450ll–2. Maintenance of museum; provision for parks, construction of roads and use of markers


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior is authorized to—

- (1) maintain, either in an existing structure acquired under [section 450ll](/usc/16/450ll.md) of this title or in a building constructed by him for the purpose, a museum for relics and records pertaining to Booker T. Washington, and for other articles of national and patriotic interest, and to accept, on behalf of the United States, for installation in such museum, articles which may be offered as [additions](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-2) to the museum; and
- (2) provide for public [parks](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) and recreational [areas](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A), construct roads and mark with monuments, tablets, or otherwise, points of interest, within the boundaries of the Booker T. Washington National Monument.

## Source credit

(Apr. 2, 1956, ch. 158, § 3, 70 Stat. 86.)