16 U.S.C. § 95 — Jurisdiction by the United States; fugitives from justice

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The United States has full legal control over Mount Rainier National Park, though Washington keeps the right to serve legal papers there and to tax people and property inside it. Federal law applies in the park, and fugitives who hide there face the same laws as fugitives elsewhere in the state.

The United States takes sole and exclusive legal control — jurisdiction — over the land inside Mount Rainier National Park. Washington State keeps two rights even though it gave up general control. First, the state can still serve civil or criminal legal papers inside the park for cases about rights gained, duties owed, or crimes committed in Washington but outside the park. Second, the state can still tax people, companies, their businesses, and their property located on the park's land. Every law that applies to places under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States applies in this park. Anyone who commits a crime elsewhere and then hides in the park is treated the same as a fugitive from justice found anywhere else in Washington State.

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Sole and exclusive jurisdiction is assumed by the United States over the territory embraced within the Mount Rainier National Park, saving, however, to the State of Washington 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 Washington.

Source credit: (June 30, 1916, ch. 197, § 1, 39 Stat. 243.)

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1916Enacted · Act of June 30, 1916, ch. 197 · 39 Stat. 243

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 197 on 1916-06-30.

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