---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 715f"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "715f"
heading: "Consent of State to conveyance in fee"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/715f"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — Protection of Migratory Game and Insectivorous Birds"
  - "Subchapter III — Migratory Bird Conservation"
---

# §715f. Consent of State to conveyance in fee


No deed or instrument of conveyance in fee shall be accepted by the [Secretary](/usc/16/718j.md?p=b-3) of the Interior under this subchapter unless the [State](/usc/16/718j.md?p=b-4) in which the [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) lies shall have consented by law to the [acquisition](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) by the United States of lands in that [State](/usc/16/718j.md?p=b-4).


## Source credit

(Feb. 18, 1929, ch. 257, § 7, 45 Stat. 1223; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4(f), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433; Pub. L. 103–434, title XIII, Oct. 31, 1994, 108 Stat. 4565.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1994—Pub. L. 103–434 inserted “in fee” after “conveyance”.

### 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.