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

# §460q–6. State jurisdiction


Nothing in this subchapter shall 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 within the recreation [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, 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. 89–336, § 7, Nov. 8, 1965, 79 Stat. 1299.)