---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460s–12"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460s–12"
heading: "Certificate of prohibition of authority for acquisition by condemnation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460s-12"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXXVII — Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore"
---

# §460s–12. Certificate of prohibition of authority for acquisition by condemnation


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall furnish to any interested [person](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b) requesting the same a certificate indicating, with respect to any property which the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) has been prohibited from acquiring by condemnation in accordance with provisions of this subchapter, that such authority is prohibited and the reasons therefor.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–668, § 13, Oct. 15, 1966, 80 Stat. 925.)