---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 58"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "58"
heading: "Laws applicable; fugitives from justice"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/58"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter VI — Sequoia and Yosemite National Parks"
---

# §58. Laws applicable; fugitives from justice


All the laws applicable to places under sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States shall have force and effect in said [parks](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) or either of them. All fugitives from justice [taking](/usc/16/3102.md?p=18) refuge in said [parks](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), or either of them, shall be subject to the same laws as refugees from justice found in the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of California.


## Source credit

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