CITE

    16 USC Sec. 117                                             01/05/2009

EXPCITE

    TITLE 16 - CONSERVATION
    CHAPTER 1 - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
    SUBCHAPTER XII - MESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK

HEAD

    Sec. 117. Exclusive jurisdiction ceded to United States by
      Colorado; saving provisions; fugitives from justice

STATUTE

      Sole and exclusive jurisdiction is assumed by the United States
    over the territory embraced and included within the Mesa Verde
    National Park, 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 tracts: and saving also to the persons residing in
    said park now or after April 25, 1928, the right to vote at all
    elections held within the county or counties in which said tracts
    are situated. 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

    (Apr. 25, 1928, ch. 434, Sec. 1, 45 Stat. 458.)

CODIFICATION

      A provision accepting the act of the Colorado Legislature which
    ceded to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over the
    territory referred to in this section has been omitted as executed.