16 USC 17e: Care and removal of indigents; disposition of dead persons
Text contains those laws in effect on January 15, 2013
From Title 16-CONSERVATIONCHAPTER 1-NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORESSUBCHAPTER I-NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
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§17e. Care and removal of indigents; disposition of dead persons
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion, to provide, out of moneys appropriated for the general expenses of the several national parks, for the temporary care and removal from the park of indigents, and in case of death to provide for their burial in those national parks not under local jurisdiction for these purposes, this section in no case to authorize transportation of such indigent or dead for a distance of more than fifty miles from the national park.