---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460v–8"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460v–8"
heading: "State and local jurisdiction"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460v-8"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXXX — Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area"
---

# §460v–8. State and local 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) consistent with the provisions of this subchapter or of its right to tax [persons](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b), corporations, franchises, or other non-Federal 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. 90–540, § 9, Oct. 1, 1968, 82 Stat. 905.)