16 U.S.C. § 468
Section 468 · National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States; creation; purpose
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 125 Ill. 2d 164 - Landmarks Preservation Council v. City of Chicago (1988)
Most recently applied in Landmarks Illinois v. Rock Island County Board (February 2021)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
In order to further the policy enunciated in sections 461 to 467 of this title, and to facilitate public participation in the preservation of sites, buildings, and objects of national significance or interest, there is created a charitable, educational, and nonprofit corporation, to be known as the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States, hereafter referred to as the “National Trust”. The purposes of the National Trust shall be to receive donations of sites, buildings, and objects significant in American history and culture, to preserve and administer them for public benefit, to accept, hold, and administer gifts of money, securities, or other property of whatsoever character for the purpose of carrying out the preservation program, and to execute such other functions as are vested in it by sections 468 to 468e 1 of this title.
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References in Text
Section 468e of this title, referred to in text, was repealed by Pub. L. 86–533, §1(19), June 29, 1960, 74 Stat. 248.
Reservation of Rights
Section 7 of act Oct. 26, 1949, provided that: “The right to repeal, alter or amend this Act [sections 468 to 468e of this title] at any time is hereby expressly reserved, but no contract or individual right made or acquired shall thereby be divested or impaired.”