§ 198. — Exclusive jurisdiction; assumption by United States; saving provisions.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC198]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER XXI--ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK
Sec. 198. Exclusive jurisdiction; assumption by United States;
saving provisions
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.
(Mar. 2, 1929, ch. 583, Sec. 1, 45 Stat. 1536.)
