CITE

    16 USC Sec. 198                                             01/05/2009

EXPCITE

    TITLE 16 - CONSERVATION
    CHAPTER 1 - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
    SUBCHAPTER XXI - ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK

HEAD

    Sec. 198. Exclusive jurisdiction; assumption by United States;
      saving provisions

STATUTE

      The provisions of the act of the Legislature of the State of
    Colorado, approved February 19, 1929, ceding to the United States
    exclusive jurisdiction over the territory embraced and included
    within the Rocky Mountain National Park, are accepted, and sole and
    exclusive jurisdiction is assumed by the United States over such
    territory, saving, however, to the State of Colorado the right to
    serve civil or criminal process within the limits of the aforesaid
    park in suits or prosecutions for or on account of rights acquired,
    obligations incurred, or crimes committed outside of said park; and
    saving further to the said State the right to tax persons and
    corporations, their franchises and property on the lands included
    in said tract; and saving also to the persons residing in said park
    now or hereafter the right to vote at all elections held within the
    county or counties in which said tracts are situated; and saving to
    all persons residing within said park upon lands now privately
    owned within said park access to and from such lands, and all
    rights and privileges as citizens of the State of Colorado; and
    saving to the people of Colorado all vested, appropriated, and
    existing water rights and rights-of-way connected therewith,
    including all existing irrigation conduits and ditches. All the
    laws applicable to places under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction
    of the United States shall have force and effect in said park. All
    fugitives from justice taking refuge in said park shall be subject
    to the same laws as refugees from justice found in the State of
    Colorado.

SOURCE

    (Mar. 2, 1929, ch. 583, Sec. 1, 45 Stat. 1536.)
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