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2009 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 3 GRANTS TO UNITED STATES OF LANDS AND RIGHTS TO ACQUIRE
3.265 Limitation of jurisdiction ceded.
Download pdffor purposes of criminal law enforcement over United States Department of the
Interior National Park System lands in Kentucky. No other legislative jurisdiction is
ceded by KRS 3.255 to 3.275, and there are specifically reserved over any lands as
to which any legislative jurisdiction may be ceded pursuant to KRS 3.255 to 3.275:
(a) The entire legislative jurisdiction with respect to taxation of the Commonwealth, and of each state agency, county, urban-county government,
city, special district and other political subdivision; (b) The entire legislative jurisdiction of the Commonwealth with respect to marriage, divorce, annulment, adoption, the commitment or other civil
disposition of the mentally incompetent, and the descent and distribution of
property; and (c) The power to execute any process, civil or criminal, issued under the authority of the Commonwealth. (2) No person residing upon such lands shall be deprived of any civil or political rights by reason of the cession of such legislative jurisdiction to the United States. Effective: June 17, 1978
History: Created 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 68, sec. 4, effective June 17, 1978.
Note: 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 396, sec. 43 would have amended this section effective July 1, 1982. However, 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 396 was repealed by 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 141,
sec. 146, also effective July 1, 1982.
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