16 U.S.C. § 2501
Section 2501 · Congressional findings
This is the Urban Park and Recreation Recovery Act of 1978
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority (1985)
Most recently applied in 372 N.J. Super. 544 - In Re Park-Madison Site (October 2004)
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.
The Congress finds that—
(a) the quality of life in urban areas is closely related to the availability of fully functional park and recreation systems including land, facilities, and service programs;
(b) residents of cities need close-to-home recreational opportunities that are adequate to specialized urban demands, with parks and facilities properly located, developed, and well maintained;
(c) the greatest recreational deficiencies with respect to land, facilities, and programs are found in many large cities, especially at the neighborhood level;
(d) inadequate financing of urban recreation programs due to fiscal difficulties in many large cities has led to the deterioration of facilities, nonavailability of recreation services, and an inability to adapt recreational programs to changing circumstances; and
(e) there is no existing Federal assistance program which fully addresses the needs for physical rehabilitation and revitalization of these park and recreation systems.
Editorial notes U.S. Code · Office of the Law Revision Counsel
Short Title
Section 1001 of title X of Pub. L. 95–625 provided that: “This title [enacting this chapter] may be cited as the ‘Urban Park and Recreation Recovery Act of 1978’.”