---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 760–5"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "760–5"
heading: "Establishment of fish hatchery at Paint Bank, Virginia"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/760-5"
units:
  - "Chapter 9A — Preservation of Fishery Resources"
---

# §760–5. Establishment of fish hatchery at Paint Bank, Virginia


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior is authorized and directed to construct, equip, maintain, and operate a new fish hatchery in the vicinity of Paint Bank, Virginia.


## Source credit

(Aug. 3, 1956, ch. 943, § 1, 70 Stat. 1020.)