---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 715d"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "715d"
heading: "Purchase or rental of approved areas or interests therein; gifts and devises; United States lands"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/715d"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — Protection of Migratory Game and Insectivorous Birds"
  - "Subchapter III — Migratory Bird Conservation"
---

# §715d. Purchase or rental of approved areas or interests therein; gifts and devises; United States lands


The [Secretary](/usc/16/718j.md?p=b-3) of the Interior may—

- (1) purchase or rent such [areas](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) or interests therein as have been approved for purchase or rental by the [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) at the price or prices fixed by the [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c); and
- (2) [acquire](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1), by gift or devise, any [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) or interests therein;

which he determines to be suitable for use as an inviolate sanctuary, or for any other management purpose, for migratory birds. The [Secretary](/usc/16/718j.md?p=b-3) may pay, when deemed necessary by him and from moneys authorized to be appropriated for the purposes of this subchapter (A) the purchase or rental price of any such [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) or interest therein, and (B) the expenses incident to the location, examination, survey, and [acquisition](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) of title (including options) of any such [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) or interest therein. No lands acquired, held, or used by the United States for military purposes shall be subject to any provisions of this subchapter.


## Source credit

(Feb. 18, 1929, ch. 257, § 5, 45 Stat. 1223; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4(f), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433; Pub. L. 95–616, § 5(a), Nov. 8, 1978, 92 Stat. 3113.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1978—Pub. L. 95–616 incorporated existing provisions in pars. (1) and (2) and cls. (A) and (B), made provisions applicable to interests in approved areas, and inserted authority for purchase or acquisition for other management purposes.

### Executive Documents

### Transfer of Functions

Transfer of functions of Secretary of Agriculture to Secretary of the Interior by Reorg. Plan No. II of 1939, see Transfer of Functions note set out under section 715a of this title.