---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460u–8"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460u–8"
heading: "State jurisdiction"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460u-8"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXXIX — Indiana Dunes National Park"
---

# §460u–8. State jurisdiction


Nothing in this subchapter shall deprive the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Indiana or any political [subdivision](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=15) thereof of its civil and criminal jurisdiction over [persons](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b) found, acts performed, and offenses committed within the boundaries of the Indiana Dunes National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) or of its right to tax [persons](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b), corporations, franchises, or other non-Federal property on lands included therein.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–761, § 8, formerly § 9, Nov. 5, 1966, 80 Stat. 1312; renumbered § 8, Pub. L. 94–549, § 1(9), Oct. 18, 1976, 90 Stat. 2533; amended Pub. L. 116–6, div. E, title I, § 115(a)(1)(A), Feb. 15, 2019, 133 Stat. 232.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 8 of Pub. L. 89–761 was renumbered section 7 and is classified to section 460u–7 of this title.

### Amendments

2019—Pub. L. 116–6 substituted “National Park” for “National Lakeshore”.