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[CITE: 16USC163]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
                  SUBCHAPTER XX--GLACIER NATIONAL PARK
 
Sec. 163. Jurisdiction by the United States; fugitives from 
        justice
        
    Sole and exclusive jurisdiction is assumed by the United States over 
the territory embraced within the Glacier National Park, saving, 
however, to the State of Montana the right to serve civil or criminal 
process within the limits of the aforesaid park in suits or prosecution 
for or on account of rights acquired, obligations incurred, or crimes 
committed in said State but 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 park. 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 Montana.

(Aug. 22, 1914, ch. 264, Sec. 1, 38 Stat. 699.)

                          Codification

    A provision accepting the act of the Montana Legislature which ceded 
to the United States Exclusive Jurisdiction over the Territory referred 
to in this section has been omitted as executed.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 170, 171 of this title.
