Files
republic-os/legal/us/code/title-16/chapter-1/section-459.md
Fabio 76b8ec33a7 Legal corpus: the complete U.S. Code (59,740 sections, all 53 titles)
Ingested titles 12–51 and 54 from OLRC USLM XML @119-100 (the whole Code
now, uniform edition; Title 53 is reserved/empty). LegalText 11,221 ->
59,740; repo total 105,704 records. Deterministic (byte-identical rerun,
verified on Title 42's 8,356 sections); make check green. make
legal-us-code default now covers every title.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-06 10:51:44 -04:00

2.3 KiB

type, title, description, jurisdiction, corpus, kind, title_number, title_name, chapter_number, chapter_name, section, citation, status, release_point, release_date, source, source_url, source_identifier, source_file, source_hash, raw_snapshot_hash, text_hash, retrieved_at, confidence, tags
type title description jurisdiction corpus kind title_number title_name chapter_number chapter_name section citation status release_point release_date source source_url source_identifier source_file source_hash raw_snapshot_hash text_hash retrieved_at confidence tags
LegalText 16 U.S.C. § 459 Cape Hatteras National Seashore Recreational Area; conditional establishment; acquisition of lands us united_states_code code_section 16 CONSERVATION 1 NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES 459 16 U.S.C. § 459 current 119-100 2026-06-26 official https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc16@119-100.zip /us/usc/t16/s459 data/legal/raw/us/code/title-16/usc16.xml 91843292d86d121ba56d9c841a7a0d2844e84177b451946791c5f8777b8d0114 7be8950da5a93cac7c98e4576ce00340f2aba5e8e46d29915382c203c421d503 c001a3fee4cde9c6ff64be0c12e251bff45d1af58ebde491ebd70ace2c0be6cb 2026-07-04 official
legal
us-code

16 U.S.C. § 459 - Cape Hatteras National Seashore Recreational Area; conditional establishment; acquisition of lands

Text

When title to all the lands, except those within the limits of established villages, within boundaries to be designated by the Secretary of the Interior within the area of approximately one hundred square miles on the islands of Chicamacomico, Ocracoke, Bodie, Roanoke, and Collington,11 So in original. Probably should be “Colington,”. and the waters and the lands beneath the waters adjacent thereto shall have been vested in the United States, said area shall be, and is, established, dedicated, and set apart as a national seashore recreational area for the benefit and enjoyment of the people and shall be known as the Cape Hatteras National Seashore Recreational Area: Provided, That the United States shall not purchase by appropriation of public moneys any lands within the aforesaid area, but such lands shall be secured by the United States only by public or private donation.

(Aug. 17, 1937, ch. 687, § 1, 50 Stat. 669; June 29, 1940, ch. 459, § 1, 54 Stat. 702.)

Notes

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name Words “national seashore recreational area” substituted in text for “national seashore” pursuant to act June 29, 1940.