---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 395"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "395"
heading: "Exclusive jurisdiction in United States; exceptions; laws applicable; fugitives from justice"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/395"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XLI — Hawaii National Park"
---

# §395. Exclusive jurisdiction in United States; exceptions; laws applicable; fugitives from justice


Sole and exclusive jurisdiction shall be exercised by the United States over the territory which is now or may hereafter be included in the Hawaii National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) in the Territory of Hawaii, saving, however, to the Territory of Hawaii the right to serve civil or criminal process within the limits of the aforesaid [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) in suits or prosecutions for or on account of rights acquired, obligations incurred, or crimes committed outside of said [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), and saving further to the Territory of Hawaii the right to tax [persons](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b) and corporations, their franchises and property on the lands included in said [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3). All the laws applicable to places under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States shall have force and effect in said [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3). All fugitives from justice [taking](/usc/16/3102.md?p=18) refuge in said [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) shall be subject to the same laws as refugees from justice found in the Territory of Hawaii.


## Source credit

(Apr. 19, 1930, ch. 200, § 1, 46 Stat. 227.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park

Designation of portion of Hawaii National Park situated on island of Hawaii as Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, effective Sept. 22, 1961, see section 391d of this title.

### Haleakala̅ National Park

Establishment of detached portion of Hawaii National Park lying on island of Maui as Haleakala̅ National Park, effective July 1, 1961, see section 396b of this title.

### Executive Documents

### Admission of Hawaii as State

Admission of Hawaii into the Union was accomplished Aug. 21, 1959, on issuance of Proc. No. 3309, Aug. 21, 1959, 24 F.R. 6868, 73 Stat. c74, as required by sections 1 and 7(c) of Pub. L. 86–3, Mar. 18, 1959, 73 Stat. 4, set out as notes preceding section 491 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.