---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 404c–1"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "404c–1"
heading: "Acceptance of cession by United States; jurisdiction"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/404c-1"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XLVII — Mammoth Cave National Park"
---

# §404c–1. Acceptance of cession by United States; jurisdiction


The provisions of the act of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, approved March 22, 1930 (Acts of 1930, ch. 132, p. 405), ceding to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over, within, and under such territory in the Commonwealth as may be acquired for the Mammoth Cave National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), are accepted. Subject to the reservations made by the Commonwealth in the act of cession, the United States assumes sole and exclusive jurisdiction over such territory.


## Source credit

(June 5, 1942, ch. 341, § 1, 56 Stat. 317.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Act of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, approved March 22, 1930 (Acts of 1930, ch. 132, p. 405), referred to in text, was also set out as Ky. St., §§ 3766e16 to 3766e22 [see §§ 3.020 and 3.070 in part].