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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores

§ 58. Laws applicable; fugitives from justice

Statutory text

All the laws applicable to places under sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States shall have force and effect in said parks or either of them. All fugitives from justice taking refuge in said parks, or either of them, shall be subject to the same laws as refugees from justice found in the State of California.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 66–218 § 1 · 41 Stat. 731

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 58

    (June 2, 1920, ch. 218, § 1, 41 Stat. 731.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (June 2, 1920, ch. 218, § 1, 41 Stat. 731.)

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Credits

(June 2, 1920, ch. 218, § 1, 41 Stat. 731.)

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