16 U.S.C. § 57 — Yosemite, Sequoia, and General Grant National Parks; exclusive jurisdiction of United States; jurisdiction remaining in and taxation by California

This section establishes federal jurisdiction over three national parks, while preserving specific state rights. The United States takes sole and exclusive jurisdiction over the land within Yosemite National Park, Sequoia National Park, and General Grant National Park. But the section carves out three things the State of California keeps: First, California keeps the right to serve civil or criminal legal process within the parks, for lawsuits or prosecutions over rights, obligations, or crimes that arose in California outside the parks. Second, California keeps the right to tax people and corporations, including their franchises and property, located on the park lands, and the right to set and collect license fees for fishing in the parks. Third, anyone who lives in the parks, now or in the future, keeps the right to vote in elections held in the county or counties where the parks are located.