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[CITE: 38USC8508]

 
                      TITLE 38--VETERANS' BENEFITS
 
            PART VI--ACQUISITION AND DISPOSITION OF PROPERTY
 
     CHAPTER 85--DISPOSITION OF DECEASED VETERANS' PERSONAL PROPERTY
 
           SUBCHAPTER I--PROPERTY LEFT ON DEPARTMENT FACILITY
 
Sec. 8508. Relinquishment of Federal jurisdiction

    Subject to the provisions of this subchapter and to the extent 
necessary to effectuate the purposes of this subchapter, there is hereby 
relinquished to the respective State or dependency of the United States 
such jurisdiction pertaining to the administration of estates of 
decedents as may have been ceded to the United States by said State or 
dependency of the United States respecting the Federal reservation on 
which is situated any Department facility while such facility is 
operated by the Department; such jurisdiction with respect to any such 
property on any such reservation to be to the same extent as if such 
premises had not been ceded to the United States. Nothing in this 
section shall be construed to deprive any State or dependency of the 
United States of any jurisdiction which it now has nor to give any 
State, possession, or dependency of the United States authority over any 
Federal official as such on such premises or otherwise.

(Pub. L. 85-857, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1259, Sec. 5208; renumbered 
Sec. 8508, Pub. L. 102-40, title IV, Sec. 402(b)(1), May 7, 1991, 105 
Stat. 238; Pub. L. 102-83, Sec. 4(a)(3), (4), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 
404.)


                               Amendments

    1991--Pub. L. 102-40 renumbered section 5208 of this title as this 
section.
    Pub. L. 102-83 substituted ``Department'' for ``Veterans' 
Administration'' in two places.
