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[CITE: 16USC480]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
                       CHAPTER 2--NATIONAL FORESTS
 
             SUBCHAPTER I--ESTABLISHMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
 
Sec. 480. Civil and criminal jurisdiction

    The jurisdiction, both civil and criminal, over persons within 
national forests shall not be affected or changed by reason of their 
existence, except so far as the punishment of offenses against the 
United States therein is concerned; the intent and meaning of this 
provision being that the State wherein any such national forest is 
situated shall not, by reason of the establishment thereof, lose its 
jurisdiction, nor the inhabitants thereof their rights and privileges as 
citizens, or be absolved from their duties as citizens of the State.

(June 4, 1897, ch. 2, Sec. 1, 30 Stat. 36; Mar. 1, 1911, ch. 186, 
Sec. 12, 36 Stat. 963.)

                          Codification

    Provisions substantially in the language of this section are 
contained in section 12 of act Mar. 1, 1911, applicable to national 
forest lands acquired on the recommendation of the National Forest 
Reservation Commission under sections 500, 515 to 519, 521, 552 and 563 
of this title.
    ``National forests'' and ``national forest'' substituted in text for 
``forest reservations'' and ``reservation'', respectively, on authority 
of act Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, 34 Stat. 1269, which provided that forest 
reserves shall hereafter be known as national forests.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 478, 482, 551 of this title.
