16 U.S.C. § 24
Jurisdiction over park; fugitives from justice
The Yellowstone National Park, as its boundaries now are defined, or as they may be hereafter defined or extended, shall be under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States. All the laws applicable to places under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, shall have force and effect in said park. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to forbid the service in the park of any civil or criminal process of any court having jurisdiction in the States of Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. All fugitives from justice taking refuge in said park shall be subject to the same laws as refugees from justice found in the State of Wyoming.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 6
cases, 1928–2014 · leading case: Par. of Plaquemines v. Total Petrochemical & Refining USA, Inc., 64 F. Supp. 3d 872 (E.D. La. 2014).
Par. of Plaquemines v. Total Petrochemical & Refining USA, Inc., 64 F. Supp. 3d 872 (E.D. La. 2014). “The Order states in relevant part: [I]t is ordered that the following-described lands, consisting of 8,000 acres, more or less, which the United States has contracted to purchase and now possesses with the right of use and occupation, in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, be, and…”
Philadelphia Elec. Co. v. Borough of Lansdale, 424 A.2d 514 (Pa. Super. Ct. 1981). “The Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. § 24 , confers jurisdiction over the transmission of electric energy in interstate commerce and the sale of electric energy at wholesale in interstate commerce upon the Federal Power Commission.”
Yellowstone Park Transp. Co. v. Gallatin Cnty., 31 F.2d 644 (9th Cir. 1929). “73 (16 USCA § 24 et seq.). That act declares that the Yellowstone National Park, as its boundaries were then defined, or as they might be thereafter defined or extended, should be under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States; that all laws applicable to places…”
Christian B. Zacharias & Mary Zacharias v. Ute Marleen Ippen, Also Known as Ute Marleen Ipsen, 337 F.2d 445 (10th Cir. 1964). “See also 16 U.S.C. § 24 . The whole of Yellowstone National Park is also included within the Federal Judicial District of Wyoming.”
Conservation Force v. Salazar (D.D.C. 2011). “” 16 U.S.C. § 24 706(2)(b). “Plaintiffs [assert] a claim under the APA…Plaintiffs have alleged a violation of the 25 5th amendment [only] because it is essential to name the constitutional violation in order to legitimate a claim under section 706(2)(b).”
Yellowstone Park Transp. Co. v. Gallatin Cnty., 27 F.2d 410 (D. Mont. 1928). “73 [16 USCA § 24]), Congress declares it “shall be under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States.”
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