---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 95"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "95"
heading: "Jurisdiction by the United States; fugitives from justice"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/95"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XI — Mount Rainier National Park"
---

# §95. Jurisdiction by the United States; fugitives from justice


Sole and exclusive jurisdiction is assumed by the United States over the territory embraced within the Mount Rainier National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), saving, however, to the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Washington the right to serve civil or criminal process within the limits of the aforesaid [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) in suits or prosecution for or on account of rights acquired, obligations incurred, or crimes committed in said [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) but outside of said [park](/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 [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3). All the laws applicable to places under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States shall have force and effect in said [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3). All fugitives from justice [taking](/usc/16/3102.md?p=18) refuge in said [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) shall be subject to the same laws as refugees from justice found in the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Washington.


## Source credit

(June 30, 1916, ch. 197, § 1, 39 Stat. 243.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

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