16 U.S.C. § 425b : US Code - Section 425B: Leasing lands for memorial

Search 16 U.S.C. § 425b : US Code - Section 425B: Leasing lands for memorial

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to enter into leases
with the owners of such of the lands, works, defenses, and
buildings thereon within the said Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania
County Battle Fields Memorial, as in his discretion it is
unnecessary to forthwith acquire title to, and such leases shall be
on such terms and conditions as the Secretary of the Interior may
prescribe, and may contain options to purchase, subject to later
acceptance if in the judgment of the Secretary of the Interior it
is as economical to purchase as condemn title to the property:
Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior may enter into
agreements upon such nominal terms as he may prescribe, permitting
the present owners or their tenants to occupy or cultivate their
present holdings, upon condition that they will preserve the
present breastworks, earthworks, walls, defenses, shelters,
buildings, and roads, and the present outlines of the battlefields,
and that they will only cut trees or underbrush or disturb or
remove the soil, under such regulations as the Secretary of the
Interior may prescribe, and that they will assist in caring for and
protecting all tablets, monuments, or such other artificial works
as may from time to time be erected by proper authority: Provided
further, That if such agreements to lease cover any lands the title
to which shall have been acquired by the United States, the
proceeds from such agreements shall be applied by the Secretary of
the Interior toward the maintenance of the park.