---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 1592f"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "1592f"
heading: "Preservation of local civil and criminal jurisdiction, and civil rights; jurisdiction of State courts"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/1592f"
units:
  - "Chapter 9 — Housing of Persons Engaged in National Defense"
  - "Subchapter IX — Defense Housing and Community Facilities and Services"
---

# §1592f. Preservation of local civil and criminal jurisdiction, and civil rights; jurisdiction of State courts


Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the acquisition by the United States of any real property pursuant to this subchapter or subchapter X of this chapter shall not deprive any [State](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14) or political subdivision thereof of its civil or criminal jurisdiction in and over such property, or impair the civil or other rights under the [State](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14) or local law of the inhabitants of such property. Any proceedings by the United States for the recovery of possession of any property or [project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) acquired, developed, or constructed under this subchapter or subchapter X of this chapter may be brought in the courts of the [States](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14) having jurisdiction of such causes.


## Source credit

(Sept. 1, 1951, ch. 378, title III, § 307, 65 Stat. 307.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Subchapter X of this chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “title IV of this Act”, meaning title IV of act Sept. 1, 1951, ch. 378, 65 Stat. 310, which enacted sections 1593 to 1593d of this title and was repealed by act June 30, 1953, ch. 170, § 19, 67 Stat. 126.