---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 U.S.C. § 9301"
title: "40"
title_heading: "Public Buildings, Property, and Works"
number: "9301"
heading: "Maintenance and administration"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/40/9301"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Public Buildings and Works"
  - "Part D — Public Buildings, Grounds, and Parks in the District of Columbia"
  - "Chapter 93 — Theodore Roosevelt Island"
---

# §9301. Maintenance and administration


The Director of the National Park Service shall maintain and administer Theodore Roosevelt Island as a natural park for the recreation and enjoyment of the public.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1233.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 9301 | 40:124 (words before proviso). | May 21, 1932, ch. 200, § 1 (words before proviso), 47 Stat. 163; Feb. 11, 1933, ch. 48, § 1, 47 Stat. 799. |

In this chapter, the words “Director of the National Park Service” are substituted for “Director of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital” and “director” because of section 2 of Executive Order No. 6166 (eff. June 10, 1933) and the Act of June 10, 1934 (ch. 38, 48 Stat. 389).

In this section, the text of section 1 (words before 1st semicolon) of the Act of May 21, 1932 (ch. 200, 47 Stat. 163) is omitted as executed.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Designation of Theodore Roosevelt Island

Act Feb. 11, 1933, ch. 48, § 2, 47 Stat. 799, provided that: “In all public documents, records, and maps of the United States in which Roosevelt Island is designated or referred to it shall be designated as ‘Theodore Roosevelt Island’.”