---
kind: "section"
citation: "54 U.S.C. § 100301"
title: "54"
title_heading: "National Park Service and Related Programs"
number: "100301"
heading: "Establishment"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/54/100301"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — National Park System"
  - "Division A — Establishment and General Administration"
  - "Chapter 1003 — Establishment, Directors, and Other Employees"
---

# §100301. Establishment


There is in the Department of the Interior a [service](/usc/54/100102.md?p=4) called the National Park [Service](/usc/54/100102.md?p=4).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 113–287, § 3, Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3097.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 100301 | 16 U.S.C. 1 (1st sentence words before 1st comma). | Aug. 25, 1916, ch. 408, § 1 (1st sentence words before 1st comma), 39 Stat. 535. |