---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460aa–6"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460aa–6"
heading: "State civil and criminal jurisdiction"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460aa-6"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXXXV — Sawtooth National Recreation Area"
---

# §460aa–6. State civil and criminal jurisdiction


Nothing in this subchapter shall diminish, enlarge, or modify any right of the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Idaho, or any political [subdivision](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=15) thereof, to exercise civil and criminal jurisdiction within the recreation [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) or of rights to tax [persons](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b), corporations, franchises, or property, including mineral or other interests, in or on lands or waters within the recreation [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 92–400, § 7, Aug. 22, 1972, 86 Stat. 614.)