---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 57"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "57"
heading: "Yosemite, Sequoia, and General Grant National Parks; exclusive jurisdiction of United States; jurisdiction remaining in and taxation by California"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/57"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter VI — Sequoia and Yosemite National Parks"
---

# §57. Yosemite, Sequoia, and General Grant National Parks; exclusive jurisdiction of United States; jurisdiction remaining in and taxation by California


Sole and exclusive jurisdiction is assumed by the United States over the territory embraced and included within the Yosemite National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), Sequoia National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), and General Grant National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), respectively, saving, however, to the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of California the right to serve civil or criminal process within the limits of the aforesaid [parks](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) or either of them in suits or prosecutions for or on account of rights acquired, obligations incurred, or crimes committed in said [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) outside of said [parks](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3); and saving further to the said [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) the right to tax [persons](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b) and corporations, their franchises and property on the lands included in said [parks](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), and the right to fix and collect license fees for fishing in said [parks](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3); and saving also to the [persons](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b) residing in any of said [parks](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) now or hereafter the right to vote at all elections held within the county or [counties](/usc/16/544.md?p=d) in which said [parks](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) are situated.


## Source credit

(June 2, 1920, ch. 218, § 1, 41 Stat. 731.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

A provision accepting the act of the California Legislature which ceded to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over the territory referred to in this section has been omitted as executed.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### General Grant National Park Abolished

Act Mar. 4, 1940, ch. 40, § 2, 54 Stat. 43, set out as section 80a of this title, abolished the General Grant National Park and added the lands to the Kings Canyon National Park as the General Grant grove section.