---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 404c–10"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "404c–10"
heading: "Notice of assumption of police jurisdiction by United States; acceptance by Secretary of further cessions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/404c-10"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XLVII — Mammoth Cave National Park"
---

# §404c–10. Notice of assumption of police jurisdiction by United States; acceptance by Secretary of further cessions


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior shall notify in writing the Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky of the passage and approval of this Act, and of the fact that the United States assumes police jurisdiction over the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3). Upon the acceptance by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior of further cessions of jurisdiction over lands now or hereafter included in the Mammoth Cave National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), the provisions of sections [2](/usc/16/2.md) to [9](/usc/16/9.md) inclusive, shall apply to such lands.


## Source credit

(June 5, 1942, ch. 341, § 10, 56 Stat. 319.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This Act, referred to in text, is act June 5, 1942, which is classified to sections 404c–1 to 404c–12 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.

Sections 2 to 9 inclusive, referred to in text, means sections 2 to 9 of act June 5, 1942, only sections 2 to 4 of which are still in effect and are classified to sections 404c–2 to 404c–4 of this title.