---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 256"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "256"
heading: "Acceptance of land ceded by State of Washington; assumption of jurisdiction"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/256"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XXVII — Olympic National Park"
---

# §256. Acceptance of land ceded by State of Washington; assumption of jurisdiction


The provisions of the act of the Legislature of the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Washington, approved March 8, 1941 ([Chapter 51](/usc/16/chch51.md) of the Laws of 1941 of the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Washington), ceding to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over and within all the territory included on March 8, 1941, in the tract of land in the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Washington, set aside for the purposes of a national [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) and known as the Olympic National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), are accepted. Subject to the reservations made by the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) in the act of cession, the United States assumes sole and exclusive jurisdiction over such territory.


## Source credit

(Mar. 6, 1942, ch. 151, § 1, 56 Stat. 135.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Act of State of Washington “approved March 8, 1941”, referred to in text, may be found in Rem. Rev. St., § 8110–1 and Revised Code of Washington Annotated, § 37.08.210.