§ 403h-1. — Acceptance of jurisdiction 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: 16USC403h-1]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER XLVI--SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK AND GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS
NATIONAL PARK
Sec. 403h-1. Acceptance of jurisdiction by United States; saving
provisions
Sole and exclusive jurisdiction is assumed by the United States over
certain lands within the States of North Carolina and Tennessee as may
be acquired for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, saving,
however, to the State of North Carolina and to the State of Tennessee,
respectively, the right to serve civil or criminal process within the
limits of the area ceded by such State in suits or prosecutions for or
on account of any rights acquired, obligations incurred, or crimes
committed in such State outside of said park; and saving further to each
such State the right to tax persons and corporations, their franchises
and property on the lands included in such ceded area; and saving also
to the persons residing in said park now, or hereafter, the right to
vote at all elections held within the county in which they reside; and
saving further to each such State the right to tax sales in such ceded
area of gasoline and other motor-vehicle fuels and oil for use in motor
vehicles. Nothing in this section shall be construed as a consent by the
United States to the taxation by the States of such sales for the
exclusive use of the United States.
(Apr. 29, 1942, ch. 264, Sec. 1, 56 Stat. 258.)
Codification
A provision accepting the act of the North Carolina Legislature and
the act of the Tennessee Legislature which ceded to the United States
exclusive jurisdiction over the territory referred to in this section
has been omitted as executed.
