§ 57. — Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks; exclusive jurisdiction of United States; jurisdiction remaining in and taxation by California.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC57]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER VI--SEQUOIA AND YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARKS
Sec. 57. Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks; exclusive
jurisdiction of United States; jurisdiction remaining in and
taxation by California
Sole and exclusive jurisdiction is assumed by the United States over
the territory embraced and included within the Yosemite National Park
and Sequoia National Park, respectively, saving, however, to the State
of California the right to serve civil or criminal process within the
limits of the aforesaid parks or either of them in suits or prosecutions
for or on account of rights acquired, obligations incurred, or crimes
committed in said State outside of said parks; and saving further to the
said State the right to tax persons and corporations, their franchises
and property on the lands included in said parks, and the right to fix
and collect license fees for fishing in said parks; and saving also to
the persons residing in any of said parks now or hereafter the right to
vote at all elections held within the county or counties in which said
parks are situated.
(June 2, 1920, ch. 218, Sec. 1, 41 Stat. 731; Mar. 4, 1940, ch. 40,
Sec. 2, 54 Stat. 43.)
Codification
A provision accepting the act of the California Legislature which
ceded to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over the territory
referred to in this section has been omitted as executed.
General Grant National Park Abolished
Act Mar. 4, 1940, set out as section 80a of this title, abolished
the General Grant National Park and added the lands to the Kings Canyon
National Park as the General Grant grove section.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 63, 64, 65 of this title.
