---
kind: "section"
citation: "54 U.S.C. § 305105"
title: "54"
title_heading: "National Park Service and Related Programs"
number: "305105"
heading: "Description of property"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/54/305105"
units:
  - "Subtitle III — National Preservation Programs"
  - "Division A — Historic Preservation"
  - "Subdivision 4 — Other Organizations and Programs"
  - "Chapter 3051 — Historic Light Station Preservation"
---

# §305105. Description of property

- (a) **In General.—** The [Administrator](/usc/54/305101.md?p=1) shall prepare the legal description of any [historic light station](/usc/54/305101.md?p=4) conveyed under this chapter. The [Administrator](/usc/54/305101.md?p=1), in consultation with the [Secretary](/usc/54/308101.md?p=1) of Homeland Security and the [Secretary](/usc/54/308101.md?p=1), may retain all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to any historical artifact, including any lens or lantern, that is associated with the [historic light station](/usc/54/305101.md?p=4) and located at the [historic light station](/usc/54/305101.md?p=4) at the time of conveyance. Wherever possible, the historical artifacts should be used in interpreting the [historic light station](/usc/54/305101.md?p=4). In cases where there is no method for preserving lenses and other artifacts and equipment in situ, priority should be given to preservation or museum entities most closely associated with the [historic light station](/usc/54/305101.md?p=4), if they meet loan requirements.
- (b) **Artifacts.—** Artifacts associated with, but not located at, a [historic light station](/usc/54/305101.md?p=4) at the time of conveyance shall remain the property of the United States under the administrative control of the [Secretary](/usc/54/308101.md?p=1) of Homeland Security.
- (c) **Covenants.—** All conditions placed with the quitclaim deed of title to the [historic light station](/usc/54/305101.md?p=4) shall be construed as covenants running with the land.
- (d) **Submerged Land.—** No submerged land shall be conveyed under this chapter.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 113–287, § 3, Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3219.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 305105 | 16 U.S.C. 470w–7(d). | Pub. L. 89–665, title III, § 308(d), as added Pub. L. 106–355, § 2, Oct. 24, 2000, 114 Stat. 1388. |

In subsection (a), the words “Secretary of Homeland Security” are substituted for “Commandant, United States Coast Guard” because of 6 U.S.C. 112(a)(2), 468(b) and (h), 551(d), and 552(d) and the Department of Homeland Security Reorganization Plan of November 25, 2002 (H. Doc. No. 108–16, 108th Cong., 1st Sess. (6 U.S.C. 542 note)).