2017 US Code
Title 16 - Conservation
Chapter 1 - National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores
Subchapter XI - Mount Rainier National Park
Sec. 95 - Jurisdiction by the United States; fugitives from justice
| 16 U.S.C. § 95 (2017) |
| §95. Jurisdiction by the United States; fugitives from justice |
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Sole and exclusive jurisdiction is assumed by the United States over the territory embraced within the Mount Rainier National Park, saving, however, to the State of Washington the right to serve civil or criminal process within the limits of the aforesaid park in suits or prosecution for or on account of rights acquired, obligations incurred, or crimes committed in said State but 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 park. 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 Washington. |
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(June 30, 1916, ch. 197, §1, 39 Stat. 243.) |
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CODIFICATION
A provision accepting the act of the legislature of the State of Washington which ceded to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over the territory referred to in this section has been omitted as executed. |
| United States Code, 2012 Edition, Supplement 5, Title 16 - CONSERVATION |
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| Title 16 - CONSERVATION CHAPTER 1 - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES SUBCHAPTER XI - MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK Sec. 95 - Jurisdiction by the United States; fugitives from justice |
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| January 12, 2018 |
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| 39 Stat. 243 |
