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 56 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 343 -JUNE 5, 1942 [CHAPTER 343] AN ACT To amend section 1 of the Act approved August 19, 1937 (50 Stat. 700), entitled "An Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior to notify the State of Virginia that the United States assumes police jurisdiction over the lands embraced within the Shenandoah National Park, and for other purposes." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1 of the Act of August 19, 1937 (50 Stat. 700), entitled "An Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior to notify the State of Virginia that the United States assumes police jurisdiction over the lands embraced within the Shenandoah National Park, and for other purposes", is hereby amended to read as follows: "That in order to provide for uniform Federal jurisdiction over all of the lands now or hereafter embraced within the Shenandoah National Park, the provisions of the Act of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia, approved April 1, 1940 (Acts of 1940, ch. 402, p. 725), fixing and defining the respective jurisdiction and powers of the Commonwealth of Virginia and the United States and ceding to the United States exclusive police jurisdiction over all lands now or hereafter included within the park are hereby accepted and such exclusive jurisdiction is assumed by the United States over such lands. From the effective date of this Act the respective jurisdiction and powers of the Commonwealth of Virginia and the United States over all lands within the Shenandoah National Park as it is now constituted or may hereafter be extended shall be as follows: "(a) The United States shall have exclusive jurisdiction, legisla- tive, executive, and judicial, with respect to the commission of crimes, and the arrest, trial, and punishment therefor, and exclusive general police jurisdiction thereover. "(b) The United States shall have the power to regulate or pro- hibit the sale of alcoholic beverages on said lands: Provided, how- ever, That, if the sale of alcoholic beverages is prohibited by general law in the Commonwealth of Virginia outside of said lands, no such alcoholic beverages shall be sold on said lands contained in said park area: And provided further, That, if the general laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia permit the sale of alcoholic beverages, then the regulations of the United States relating to such sales on said lands shall conform as nearly as possible to the regulatory pro- visions in accordance with which such sales are permitted in the Commonwealth of Virginia outside of said park lands. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed as reserving in the Commonwealth power to require licenses of persons engaged in the sale of intoxi- cating beverages on said lands, nor the power to require that any sales be made through official liquor stores. "(c) The Commonwealth of Virginia shall have jurisdiction to serve civil process within the limits of said park in any suits properly instituted in any of the courts of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and to serve criminal process within said limits in any suits or prosecu- tions for or on account of crimes committed in said Commonwealth but outside of said park. "(d) The Commonwealth of Virginia shall have the jurisdiction and power to levy a nondiscriminatory tax on all alcoholic beverages possessed or sold on said lands. "(e) The Commonwealth of Virginia shall have jurisdiction and power to tax the sales of oil and gasoline, and other motor-vehicle fuels and lubricants for use in motor vehicles. This subsection shall not be construed as a consent by the United States to the taxation by the Commonwealth of such sales for the exclusive use of the United States. 65714--43--T . I---21 321 June 5, 1942 [H. R. 5016] [Public Law 583] Shenandoah Na- tional Park, Va. 16 U.S. C. §403c-1 . Assumption by U. S . of exclusive police ju- risdiction. State and Federal powers defined. U. S. jurisdiction and powers. Commission of crimes. Sale of alcoholic bev- erages. Provisos. Effect of general laws of Virginia. Jurisdiction and powers of Virginia. Service of process. Beverage tax. Motor-vehicle fuel, etc.. taxes.

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