Chap. 414.-—-An ACT to amend and re-enact an Act designated as Chapter 402 of
the Atts of 1940, approved April 1, 1940, entitled “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 167]

Approved April 4, 1942

Whereas, the United States of America has acquired from time to
time various tracts of land 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 accord-
ance 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. Be it 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 modification of the
jurisdiction and powers heretofore ceded by the Commonwealth of Vir-
ginia and accepted by the United States over lands in the Shenandoah
National Park, the respective jurisdiction and powers of the Common-
wealth 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, legislative,
executive and judicial, with respect to the commission of crimes, and the
arrest, trial, and punishment therefor, and exclusive general police juris-
diction thereover.

(b) The United States shall have the power to regulate or prohibit
the sale of alcoholic beverages on said lands; Provided, however, that, if
the sale of alcoholic beverages is prohibited by general law in the Com-
monwealth 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 per-
mitted in the Commonwealth of Virginia outside of said park lands.
Nothing in this subsection shall be construed as reserving in the Com-
monwealth 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 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 Commonwealth 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 alcoholic 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. This subsection shall not be
construed as a consent by the United States to the taxation by the Com-
monwealth of such sales for the exclusive use of the United States.

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

(zg) 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 appro-
priate 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. All fugitives from justice taking refuge in
the park shall be subject to the same laws as refugees from justice found
in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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