---
kind: "section"
citation: "54 U.S.C. § 102304"
title: "54"
title_heading: "National Park Service and Related Programs"
number: "102304"
heading: "National Park Service Advisory Council"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/54/102304"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — National Park System"
  - "Division A — Establishment and General Administration"
  - "Chapter 1023 — Programs and Organizations"
---

# §102304. National Park Service Advisory Council

- (a) **Definitions.—** In this section:
  - (1) **Board.—** The term “Board” means the [National Park System](/usc/54/100102.md?p=2) Advisory Board established under [section 102303 of this title](/usc/54/102303.md).
  - (2) **Council.—** The term “Council” means the National Park [Service](/usc/54/100102.md?p=4) Advisory Council established under [subsection (b)](#b).
- (b) **Establishment and Purpose.—** There is established a National Park [Service](/usc/54/100102.md?p=4) Advisory Council that shall provide advice and counsel to the Board.
- (c) **Membership.—**
  - (1) **Eligibility.—** Membership on the Council shall be limited to individuals whose term on the Board has expired. Those individuals may serve as long as they remain active except that not more than 12 members may serve on the Council at any one time.
  - (2) **Compensation.—** Members of the Council shall receive no salary but may be paid expenses incidental to travel when engaged in discharging their duties as members.
- (d) **Voting Restriction.—** Members of the Council shall not have a vote on the Board.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 113–287, § 3, Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3157.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 102304(a)(1) | no source. |  |
| 102304(a)(2), (b) | 16 U.S.C. 463(g) (1st sentence). | Aug. 21, 1935, ch. 593, § 3(g), as added Pub. L. 101–628, title XII, § 1212, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4507; Pub. L. 104–333, div. I, title VIII, § 814(f)(1)(B), Nov. 12, 1996, 110 Stat. 4198. |
| 102304(c)(1) | 16 U.S.C. 463(g) (2d, 3d, 6th, last sentences). |  |
| 102304(c)(2) | 16 U.S.C. 463(g) (5th sentence). |  |
| 102304(d) | 16 U.S.C. 463(g) (4th sentence). |  |

In subsection (c)(1), the text of 16 U.S.C. 463(g) (6th and last sentences) is omitted as obsolete.