---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 459i–6"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "459i–6"
heading: "State and local jurisdiction"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/459i-6"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXIII — National Seashore Recreational Areas"
---

# §459i–6. State and local jurisdiction


Nothing in sections [459i](/usc/16/459i.md) to [459i–9](/usc/16/459i–9.md) of this title shall deprive the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Georgia or any political [subdivision](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=15) thereof of its civil or criminal jurisdiction over [persons](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b) found, acts performed, and offenses committed within the boundaries of the seashore, or of its right to tax [persons](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b), corporations, franchises, or other non-Federal property on lands included therein.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 92–536, § 7, Oct. 23, 1972, 86 Stat. 1068.)