---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460o–6"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460o–6"
heading: "Civil and criminal jurisdiction and taxing power of State"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460o-6"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXXIII — Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area"
---

# §460o–6. Civil and criminal jurisdiction and taxing power of State


Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to deprive any [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) or political [subdivision](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=15) thereof, of its right to exercise civil and criminal jurisdiction over the lands and waters within the [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) or of its right to tax [persons](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b), corporations, franchises, or property on the lands and waters included in the [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–158, § 7, Sept. 1, 1965, 79 Stat. 614.)