Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73

§404c–10 Notice of assumption of police jurisdiction by United States; acceptance by Secretary of further cessions

Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 1— - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER XLVII— - MAMMOTH CAVE NATIONAL PARK › § 404c–10

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must notify Kentucky’s Governor in writing that the Act passed and the United States now has police control of the park; if more park lands are transferred, sections 2–9 apply to those lands.

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Title 16, §404c–10

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The Secretary of the Interior shall notify in writing the Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky of the passage and approval of this Act, and of the fact that the United States assumes police jurisdiction over the park. Upon the acceptance by the Secretary of the Interior of further cessions of jurisdiction over lands now or hereafter included in the Mammoth Cave National Park, the provisions of sections 2 to 9 inclusive, shall apply to such lands.

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This Act, referred to in text, is act

June 5, 1942, which is classified to sections 404c–1 to 404c–12 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables. Sections 2 to 9 inclusive, referred to in text, means sections 2 to 9 of act

June 5, 1942, only sections 2 to 4 of which are still in effect and are classified to sections 404c–2 to 404c–4 of this title.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 404c–10

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73