16 U.S.C. § 32 : US Code - Section 32: Lease of lands within park

Search 16 U.S.C. § 32 : US Code - Section 32: Lease of lands within park

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and empowered to
lease for a period not exceeding twenty years, at an annual rental
to be determined by him, to any person, corporation, or company he
may authorize to transact business in the Yellowstone National
Park, separate tracts of land, not exceeding twenty acres each, at
such places not to exceed ten in number to any one person,
corporation, or company, in said park as the comfort and
convenience of visitors may require for the construction and
maintenance of substantial hotel buildings and buildings for the
protection of stage, stock, and equipment.
Such lease or leases shall not include any of the geysers or any
objects of curiosity or interest in said park, or exclude the
public from free and convenient approach thereto, or include any
ground within one-eighth of a mile of any of the geysers of the
Yellowstone Falls, the Grand Canyon, or the Yellowstone River,
Mammoth Hot Springs, or any object of curiosity in the park; nor
shall such lease convey either expressly or by implication any
exclusive privilege within the park, except on the premises held
thereunder and for the time therein granted. Every lease made for
any property of said park shall require the lessee to observe and
obey each and every provision in any Act of Congress, every rule,
order, or regulation made or which shall hereafter be made and
published by the Secretary of the Interior concerning the use,
care, management, or government of the park, or any object or
property therein under penalty of forfeiture of such lease, and
shall be subject to the right of revocation and forfeiture, which
shall therein be reserved by the Secretary of the Interior.
The provisions of this section are not to be construed as
mandatory upon the Secretary of the Interior, but the authority
herein given is to be exercised in his sound discretion.