---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460x–3"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460x–3"
heading: "Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Advisory Commission"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460x-3"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXXXII — Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore"
---

# §460x–3. Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Advisory Commission

- (a) **Establishment; termination—** There is hereby established a Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Advisory [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c). The [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) shall cease to exist twenty years after the establishment of the lakeshore pursuant to [section 460x–1 of this title](/usc/16/460x–1.md).
- (b) **Membership; appointment; term of office; recommendation or designation of appointees—** The [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) shall be composed of ten members, each appointed for a term of two years by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1), as follows:
  - (1) Four members to be appointed from recommendations made by the [counties](/usc/16/544.md?p=d) in which the lakeshore is situated, two members to represent each such county;
  - (2) Four members to be appointed from recommendations made by the Governor of the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Michigan; and
  - (3) Two members to be designated by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1).
- (c) **Chairman; vacancies—** The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall designate one member to be Chairman. Any vacancy in the [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) shall be filled in the same manner in which the original appointment was made.
- (d) **Compensation and expenses; vouchers—** A member of the [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) shall serve without compensation as such. The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) is authorized to pay the expenses reasonably incurred by the [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) in carrying out its responsibilities under this subchapter on vouchers signed by the Chairman.
- (e) **Consultation of Secretary with Commission—** The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) or his designee shall consult with the [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) with respect to—
  - (1) matters relating to the development of the lakeshore and with respect to the provisions of sections [460x–8](/usc/16/460x–8.md), [460x–11](/usc/16/460x–11.md), and [460x–12](/usc/16/460x–12.md) of this title; and
  - (2) matters relating to the implementation of the General [Management Plan](/usc/16/544.md?p=k) provided for in [section 460x–5(b) of this title](/usc/16/460x–5.md?p=b).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–479, § 4, Oct. 21, 1970, 84 Stat. 1076; Pub. L. 100–558, Oct. 28, 1988, 102 Stat. 2796.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1988—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 100–558, § 1(1), substituted “twenty” for “ten”.

Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 100–558, § 1(2), amended subsec. (e) generally, designating existing provisions as par. (1) and adding par. (2).