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

# §460jj–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 Colorado, or any political [subdivision](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=15) thereof, to exercise civil and criminal jurisdiction within the Indian Peaks [Wilderness](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13) [Area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) or the Arapaho National Recreation [Area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) or of rights to tax [persons](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b), franchises, or property, including mineral or other interests, in or on lands or waters within those [areas](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–450, § 10, Oct. 11, 1978, 92 Stat. 1098.)