---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 372a"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "372a"
heading: "Acceptance of jurisdiction over part of park; application of laws"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/372a"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XL — Hot Springs National Park"
---

# §372a. Acceptance of jurisdiction over part of park; application of laws


The conditional cession and grant to the United States of exclusive jurisdiction over that part of the Hot Springs National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) known as the public camp ground and described as follows: Commencing at the stone marking at the northeast corner of the northeast quarter of [section 33](/usc/16/33.md), township 2 south, range 19 west, thence east for five hundred and twenty-eight feet along the south line of the southwest quarter of section 27, township 2 south, range 19 west, thence north parallel with the reservation line for one thousand three hundred and twenty feet to the north line of said southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 27, township 2 south, range 19 west, thence west for five hundred and twenty-eight feet along north line of said southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 27, township 2 south, range 19 west to the east line of Hot Springs National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), thence south along the line of Hot Springs National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) to the place of beginning, in the county of Garland, [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Arkansas, being a part of the Hot Springs National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), made by act of the Legislature of the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Arkansas, approved March 27, 1925, are accepted, and the provisions of section 376[^1] of this title, relating to the Hot Springs Mountain Reservation, Arkansas, are extended to said land.


## Footnotes

[^1]: See References in Text note below.

## Source credit

(Mar. 3, 1927, ch. 317, 44 Stat. 1359.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Section 376 of this title, referred to in text, was repealed by act June 25, 1948, ch. 646, § 39, 62 Stat. 992, eff. Sept. 1, 1948. See section 636 of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure.