---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 404c–2"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "404c–2"
heading: "Fugitives from justice"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/404c-2"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XLVII — Mammoth Cave National Park"
---

# §404c–2. Fugitives from justice


All fugitives from justice [taking](/usc/16/3102.md?p=18) refuge in the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) shall be subject to the same laws as fugitives from justice found in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.


## Source credit

(June 5, 1942, ch. 341, § 2, 56 Stat. 317; June 25, 1948, ch. 646, § 39, 62 Stat. 992.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1948—Act June 25, 1948, struck out first sentence relating to inclusion of park in a judicial district. See section 97 of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure, and section 3231 of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1948 Amendment

Section 38 of act June 25, 1948, provided that the amendment made by that act is effective Sept. 1, 1948.