Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102
§459i–6 State and Local Jurisdiction
Title 16 › CHAPTER 1 — NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › SUBCHAPTER LXIII — NATIONAL SEASHORE RECREATIONAL AREAS › § 459i–6
Summary
Georgia and its local governments keep civil and criminal control over people, actions, and crimes inside the seashore and keep their power to tax people, businesses, franchises, and non‑Federal property there.
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Title 16, §459i–6
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Nothing in sections 459i to 459i–9 of this title shall deprive the State of Georgia or any political subdivision thereof of its civil or criminal jurisdiction over persons found, acts performed, and offenses committed within the boundaries of the seashore, or of its right to tax persons, corporations, franchises, or other non-Federal property on lands included therein.
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16 U.S.C. § 459i–6
Title 16, Conservation
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102