§ 372. — Laws operative within judicial district of Arkansas.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC372]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER XL--HOT SPRINGS NATIONAL PARK
Sec. 372. Laws operative within judicial district of Arkansas
The portion of the Hot Springs Mountain Reservation in the State of
Arkansas situated and lying within boundaries defined as follows,
``commencing at stone monument numbered 7, set upon the west line of
Reserve Avenue and marking the boundary line of Hot Springs Mountain,
and running thence in a northwesterly direction to a point upon the
south line of Fountain Street to a stone monument numbered 42 and
marking the boundary line of Hot Springs Mountain; thence along the
south line of Fountain Street to its intersection with Central Avenue or
to stone monument numbered 33; thence south along the east line of
Central Avenue to where the same is intersected by Reserve Avenue at
stone monument numbered 30; thence along the north boundary line of
Reserve Avenue to stone monument numbered 7, the point of commencement;
all in township 2 south, range 19 west, in the county of Garland and
State of Arkansas, and also block 82, being a part of the permanent
United States Hot Springs National Park'', or within such boundaries as
may be defined hereafter, shall be under the sole and exclusive
jurisdiction of the United States, and all laws applicable to places
under such sole and exclusive jurisdiction shall have full force and
effect therein. Nothing in this section and sections 373 and 374 of this
title shall be so construed as to forbid the service within said
boundaries of any civil or criminal process of any court having
jurisdiction in the State of Arkansas. All fugitives from justice taking
refuge within said boundaries shall, on due application to the executive
of said State, whose warrant may lawfully run within said territory for
said purpose, be subject to the laws which apply to fugitives from
justice found in the State of Arkansas. Said sections shall not be so
construed as to interfere with the right to tax all structures and other
property in private ownership within the boundaries above described,
according to the State of Arkansas by section 365 of this title.
(Apr. 20, 1904, ch. 1400, Secs. 1, 2, 33 Stat. 187; Mar. 3, 1911, ch.
231, Sec. 291, 36 Stat. 1167; Sept. 18, 1922, ch. 321, 42 Stat. 847;
June 24, 1946, ch. 463, Sec. 1, 60 Stat. 303; June 25, 1948, ch. 646,
Sec. 39, 62 Stat. 992.)
Codification
Provisions at end of section making the described portion of the
park part of the United States judicial district of Arkansas and giving
jurisdiction of offenses therein to the district court were from section
2 of act of Apr. 20, 1904, and the remainder from section 1 of act Apr.
20, 1904.
Act Mar. 3, 1911 conferred the power of the circuit courts upon the
district courts.
Act Sept. 18, 1922, ch. 321 accepted the provisions of the Act of
the Legislature of the State of Arkansas, approved Feb. 2, 1921, ceding
to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over block 82, aforesaid,
and extended to block 82 of the provisions of this section and sections
373, and 374 of this title.
Provision of section 1 of act Apr. 20, 1904, reciting the acceptance
of the provisions of the Act of the Arkansas Legislature ceding to the
United States exclusive jurisdiction over the territory described in
section 1 aforesaid was omitted for purposes of codification.
The line of the reservation was changed, and the tract of land
thereby excluded was ceded to the city of Hot Springs, to be used for
street purposes only, by act May 23, 1906, ch. 2552, 34 Stat. 198.
Certain lots situated on the Hot Springs Reservation were granted to
the school district of Hot Springs by act Apr. 30, 1908, ch. 154,
Sec. 1, 35 Stat. 98.
A strip of land described was ceded to the city of Hot Springs for
use as a public street, by act June 25, 1910, ch. 417, 36 Stat. 844.
The three provisions last mentioned were omitted from the Code as
executed.
Amendments
1948--Act June 25, 1948, omitted ``and the above-described portion
of said park shall constitute a part of the Western United States
judicial district of Arkansas, and the district court for said district
shall have jurisdiction of all offenses committed within said
boundaries''. See section 83 of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial
Procedure, section 3231 of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure, and
rule 18 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, Title 18, Appendix.
1946--Act June 24, 1946, transferred the park from the jurisdiction
of the Eastern United States Judicial District of Arkansas to the
Western United States Judicial District of Arkansas.
Effective Date of 1948 Amendment
Section 38 of act June 25, 1948, provided that the amendment made by
that act is effective Sept. 1, 1948.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 373 of this title.
