ProvidedProvided furtherAnd provided furtherThat the Secretary of the Interior be, and hereby is, authorized and empowered, under general regulations to be fixed by him, to permit the use of rights of way through the public lands, forest and other reservations of the United States, and the Yosemite, Sequoia, and General Grant national parks, California, for electrical plants, poles, and lines for the generation and distribution of electrical power, and for telephone and telegraph purposes, and for canals, ditches, pipes and pipe lines, flumes, tunnels, or other water conduits, and for water plants, dams, and reservoirs used to promote irrigation or mining or quarrying, or the manufacturing or cutting of timber or lumber, or the supplying of water for domestic, public, or any other beneficial uses to the extent of the ground occupied by such canals, ditches, flumes, tunnels, reservoirs, or other water conduits or water plants, or electrical or other works permitted hereunder, and not to exceed fifty feet on each side of the marginal limits thereof, or not to exceed fifty feet on each side of the center line of such pipes and pipe lines, electrical, telegraph, and telephone lines and poles, by any citizen, association, or corporation of the United States, where it is intended by such to exercise the use permitted hereunder or any one or more of the purposes herein named: , That such permits shall be allowed within or through any of said parks or any forest, military, Indian, or other reservation only upon the approval of the chief officer of the Department under whose supervision such park or reservation falls and upon a finding by him that the same is not incompatible with the public interest: , That all permits given hereunder for telegraph and telephone purposes shall be subject to the provisions of title sixty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States, and amendments thereto, regulating rights of way for telegraph companies over the public domain: , That any permission given by the Secretary of the Interior under the provisions of this Act may be revoked by him or his successor in his discretion, and shall not be held to confer any right, or easement, or interest in, to, or over any public land, reservation, or park.
Feb. 15, 1901, ch. 37231 Stat. 790Pub. L. 94–579, title VII, § 706(a)90 Stat. 2793Pub. L. 113–287, § 7128 Stat. 3272(, ; , , ; , , .)
Editorial Notes
References in Text
act July 16, 1947, ch. 256, § 161 Stat. 327Title sixty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States, and amendments thereto, referred to in text, which consisted of R.S. §§ 5263 to 5269, was classified to sections 1 to 6 and 8 of Title 47, Telecommunications, and was repealed by , .
act Feb. 15, 1901, ch. 37231 Stat. 790This Act, referred to in text, is , . For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.
Codification
Act Feb. 15, 1901, ch. 37231 Stat. 790, , was also classified to sections 79 and 522 of Title 16, Conservation, which have been omitted from the Code.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
General Grant National Park Abolished
Act Mar. 4, 1940, ch. 40, § 254 Stat. 43section 80a of Title 16, , which is classified to , Conservation, abolished the General Grant National Park and added the lands to the Kings Canyon National Park as the General Grant grove section.
Repeals
Pub. L. 94–579, title VII, § 706(a)90 Stat. 2793Pub. L. 94–579section 1702(e) of this titleSection repealed by , , , effective on and after , insofar as applicable to the issuance of rights-of-way over, upon, under, and through the public lands and lands in the National Forest System. For definition of “public lands” for purposes of , see .
Pub. L. 113–287, § 7128 Stat. 3272section 100902(a) of Title 54Section repealed by , , , insofar as applicable to units of the National Park System. See , National Park Service and Related Programs.
Savings Provision
Pub. L. 94–579section 701 of Pub. L. 94–579section 1701 of this titleRepeal by insofar as applicable to the issuance of rights-of-way not to be construed as terminating any valid lease, permit, patent, etc., existing on , see , set out as a note under .