Chap. 402.—An ACT to provide for the respective jurisdictions and powers of the
United States and the Commonwealth of Virginia over lands in the Shenandoah
National Park acquired by the United States, the effect of which is to modify the
jurisdiction ceded to the United States over certain parts of said lands as set
forth in Section 7 of Chapter 371 of the Acts of 1928, and over other parts as set
forth in Section 19-a of the Code of Virginia. [S B 338]

Approved April 1, 1940

Whereas, the United States of America has acquired from time to
time various tracts of lands in Virginia which form and constitute the
Shenandoah National Park; and,

Whereas, the jurisdiction and powers of the United States over
certain parts of said lands has been ceded to the United States in
accordance with the provisions of section seven of chapter three
hundred and seventy-one of the Acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-
eight, and the jurisdiction and powers of the United States over certain
other parts of said lands are vested in the United States by virtue of
the provisions of section nineteen-a of the Code of Virginia, as enacted
by chapter three hundred and eighty-two of the Acts of nineteen
hundred and thirty-six; and,

Whereas, it is desired that the jurisdiction and powers of the United
States over all of said lands comprising the said Shenandoah National
Park shall be uniform, and shall be as hereinafter provided; now, there-
fore,

1. Beit enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That from
and after the time of the acceptance by the Congress of the United
States of the jurisdiction and powers hereby ceded and the modifica-
tion of the jurisdiction and powers heretofore ceded by the Common-
wealth of Virginia and accepted by the United States over lands in the
Shenandoah National Park, the respective jurisdiction and powers of
the Commonwealth of Virginia and the United States of America over
all lands within the Shenandoah National Park as it is now constituted
or may. hereafter be extended shall be as follows: .

(a) The United States shall have exclusive jurisdiction, legis-
lative, executive and judicial, with respect to the commission of
crimes, and the arrest, trial, and punishment therefor, and exclusive
general police jurisdiction thereover.

(b) The United States shall have the power to regulate or pro-
hibit the sale of alcoholic beverages on said lands, provided, however,
that, if the sale of alcoholic beverages is prohibited by general law in
the Commonwealth of Virginia outside of said lands, no such alcoholic
beverages shall be sold on said lands contained in said park area, and
provided, further, that, if the general laws of the Commonwealth of
Virginia permit the sale of alcoholic beverages, then the regulations
of the United States relating to such sales on said lands shall conform
as nearly as possible to the regulatory provisions in accordance with
which such sales are permitted in the Commonwealth of Virginia
outside of said park lands. Nothing in this subsection shall be con-
strued as reserving in the Commonwealth power to require licenses of
persons engaged in the sale of intoxicating beverages on said lands,
nor the power to require that any sales be made through official liquor
stores.

(c) The Commonwealth of Virginia reserves the right and shall
have jurisdiction to serve civil process within the limits of said park
in any suits properly instituted in any of the courts of the Common-
wealth of Virginia, and to serve criminal process within said limits in
any suits or prosecutions for or on account of crimes committed in
said Commonwealth but outside of said park.

(d) The Commonwealth of Virginia shall have the jurisdiction
and power to levy a nondiscriminatory tax on all unalcoholic beverages
possessed or sold on said lands.

(e) The Commonwealth of Virginia shall have jurisdiction and
power to tax the sales of oil and gasoline, and other motor vehicle
fuels and lubricants for use in motor vehicles.

(f) The Commonwealth of Virginia shall have the jurisdiction and
power to levy nondiscriminatory taxes on private individuals, associa-
tions, and corporations, their franchises and properties, on said lands,
and on their businesses conducted thereon.

(g) . The courts of the Commonwealth of Virginia shall have con-
current jurisdiction with the courts of the United States of all civil
causes of action arising on said lands to the same extent as if the cause
of action had arisen in the county or city in which the land lies outside
the park area, and the State officers shall have jurisdiction to enforce
on said lands the judgments of said State courts and the collection
of taxes by appropriate process.

(h) Persons residing in or on any of the said lands embraced in
said Shenandoah National Park shall have the right to establish a
voting residence in Virginia by reason thereof, and the consequent
right to vote at all elections within the county or city in which said
land or lands upon which they reside are located upon like terms and
conditions, and to the same extent as they would be entitled to vote in
such county or city if the said lands on which they reside had not been
deeded or conveyed to the United States of America. |

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its
passage.