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[CITE: 16USC117]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
                SUBCHAPTER XII--MESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK
 
Sec. 117. Exclusive jurisdiction ceded to United States by 
        Colorado; saving provisions; fugitives from justice
        
    Sole and exclusive jurisdiction is assumed by the United States over 
the territory embraced and included within the Mesa Verde National Park, 
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 tracts: and saving also to the 
persons residing in said park now or after April 25, 1928, the right to 
vote at all elections held within the county or counties in which said 
tracts are situated. 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.

(Apr. 25, 1928, ch. 434, Sec. 1, 45 Stat. 458.)

                          Codification

    A provision accepting the act of the Colorado Legislature which 
ceded to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over the territory 
referred to in this section has been omitted as executed.
