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LegalText 16 U.S.C. § 57 Yosemite, Sequoia, and General Grant National Parks; exclusive jurisdiction of United States; jurisdiction remaining in and taxation by California us united_states_code code_section 16 CONSERVATION 1 NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES 57 16 U.S.C. § 57 current 119-100 2026-06-26 official https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc16@119-100.zip /us/usc/t16/s57 data/legal/raw/us/code/title-16/usc16.xml 75dbfd5204c0b9bc7baf467a5472c6e6a6c5d7f6bc1ec9f0d892b889d1d46e6c 7be8950da5a93cac7c98e4576ce00340f2aba5e8e46d29915382c203c421d503 cb543d3964be94434f6f1412d28c9f84eb7cb685758ed5b90f71f0ea8e18423b 2026-07-04 official
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16 U.S.C. § 57 - Yosemite, Sequoia, and General Grant National Parks; exclusive jurisdiction of United States; jurisdiction remaining in and taxation by California

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Sole and exclusive jurisdiction is assumed by the United States over the territory embraced and included within the Yosemite National Park, Sequoia National Park, and General Grant 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, § 1, 41 Stat. 731.)

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Editorial Notes

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.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

General Grant National Park AbolishedAct Mar. 4, 1940, ch. 40, § 2, 54 Stat. 43, 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.