---
kind: "section"
citation: "54 U.S.C. § 104903"
title: "54"
title_heading: "National Park Service and Related Programs"
number: "104903"
heading: "Care, removal, and burial of indigents"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/54/104903"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — National Park System"
  - "Division A — Establishment and General Administration"
  - "Chapter 1049 — Miscellaneous"
---

# §104903. Care, removal, and burial of indigents


The [Secretary](/usc/54/100102.md?p=3) may provide, out of amounts appropriated for the general expenses of [System units](/usc/54/100102.md?p=6), for the temporary care and removal from a [System unit](/usc/54/100102.md?p=6) of indigents, and in case of death to provide for their burial in [System units](/usc/54/100102.md?p=6) not under local jurisdiction for these purposes. This section does not authorize transportation of indigents or deceased for a distance of more than 50 miles from the [System unit](/usc/54/100102.md?p=6).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 113–287, § 3, Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3168.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 104903 | 16 U.S.C. 17e. | May 26, 1930, ch. 324, § 6, 46 Stat. 382. |