---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460gg–11"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460gg–11"
heading: "Civil and criminal jurisdiction of Idaho and Oregon"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460gg-11"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XCI — Hells Canyon National Recreation Area"
---

# §460gg–11. Civil and criminal jurisdiction of Idaho and Oregon


Nothing in this subchapter shall diminish, enlarge, or modify any right of the [States](/usc/16/544.md?p=r) of Idaho, Oregon, or any political [subdivisions](/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. 94–199, § 14, Dec. 31, 1975, 89 Stat. 1122.)