---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 403a"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "403a"
heading: "Acceptance of title to lands"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/403a"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XLVI — Shenandoah National Park and Great Smoky Mountains National Park"
---

# §403a. Acceptance of title to lands


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion, to accept as hereinafter provided on behalf of the United States title to the lands referred to in [section 403 of this title](/usc/16/403.md) and to be purchased with the $1,200,000 which has been subscribed by the [State](/usc/16/6456.md?p=2) of Virginia and the Shenandoah [National Park](/usc/16/410hhh–1.md?p=5) Association of Virginia and with other contributions for the purchase of lands in the Shenandoah [National Park](/usc/16/410hhh–1.md?p=5) [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A), and with the $1,066,693 which has been subscribed by the [State](/usc/16/6456.md?p=2) of Tennessee and the Great Smoky Mountains [Conservation](/usc/16/6456.md?p=2) Association and by the Great Smoky Mountains (Incorporated) (North Carolina) and with other contributions for the purchase of lands in the Great Smoky Mountains [National Park](/usc/16/410hhh–1.md?p=5) [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A).


## Source credit

(May 22, 1926, ch. 363, § 2, 44 Stat. 616.)