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16 USC SECTION 19o
TITLE 16 - CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1 - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND
SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER III - NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION
(a) Establishment
The Foundation shall design and implement a comprehensive program
to assist and promote philanthropic programs of support at the
individual national park unit level.
(b) Implementation
The program under subsection (a) of this section shall be
implemented to -
(1) assist in the creation of local nonprofit support
organizations; and
(2) provide support, national consistency, and
management-improving suggestions for local nonprofit support
organizations.
(c) Program
The program under subsection (a) of this section shall include
the greatest number of national park units as is practicable.
(d) Requirements
The program under subsection (a) of this section shall include,
at a minimum -
(1) a standard adaptable organizational design format to
establish and sustain responsible management of a local nonprofit
support organization for support of a national park unit;
(2) standard and legally tenable bylaws and recommended
money-handling procedures that can easily be adapted as applied
to individual national park units; and
(3) a standard training curriculum to orient and expand the
operating expertise of personnel employed by local nonprofit
support organizations.
(e) Annual report
The Foundation shall report the progress of the program under
subsection (a) of this section in the annual report of the
Foundation.
(f) Affiliations
(1) Charter or corporate bylaws
Nothing in this section requires -
(A) a nonprofit support organization or friends group to
modify current practices or to affiliate with the Foundation;
or
(B) a local nonprofit support organization, established as a
result of this section, to be bound through its charter or
corporate bylaws to be permanently affiliated with the
Foundation.
(2) Establishment
An affiliation with the Foundation shall be established only at
the discretion of the governing board of a nonprofit
organization.
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