---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 115"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "115"
heading: "Leases and permits; prehistoric ruins not included"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/115"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XII — Mesa Verde National Park"
---

# §115. Leases and permits; prehistoric ruins not included


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior may, upon terms and conditions to be fixed by him, grant leases and permits for the use of the land or development of the [resources](/usc/16/410hhh–1.md?p=8) thereof, in the Mesa Verde [National Park](/usc/16/410hhh–1.md?p=5), and the [funds](/usc/16/1421h.md?p=2) derived therefrom shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States. Such leases or grants shall not include any of the prehistoric ruins in said [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) or exclude the public from free or convenient access thereto.


## Source credit

(June 25, 1910, ch. 385, § 1, 36 Stat. 796.)