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[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.
