                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK (§ 1-402)

The respective jurisdiction and powers of the Commonwealth 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:
		1. Criminal and police jurisdiction. &#8212; The United States shall have
exclusive jurisdiction, legislative, executive and judicial, with respect to the
commission of crimes, and the arrest, trial and punishment therefor, and
exclusive general police jurisdiction thereover.
		2. Sale of alcoholic beverages. &#8212; The United States shall have the
power to regulate or prohibit the sale of alcoholic beverages on such lands;
provided, that, if the sale of alcoholic beverages is prohibited by general law
in the Commonwealth outside of such lands, no such alcoholic beverages shall be
sold on the lands contained in the Park area; and provided further, that if the
general laws of the Commonwealth permit the sale of alcoholic beverages, then
the regulations of the United States relating to such sales on such lands shall
conform as nearly as possible to the regulatory provisions in accordance with
which such sales are permitted in the Commonwealth outside of such 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 intoxicating
beverages on such lands, nor the power to require that any sales be made through
official liquor stores.
		3. Service of civil and criminal process. &#8212; The Commonwealth shall have
jurisdiction to serve civil process within the limits of the Park in any suits
properly instituted in any of the courts of the Commonwealth and to serve
criminal process within such limits in any suits or prosecutions for or on
account of crimes committed in the Commonwealth but outside of the Park.
		4. Tax on alcoholic beverages. &#8212; The Commonwealth shall have
jurisdiction and power to levy a nondiscriminatory tax on all alcoholic
beverages possessed or sold on such lands.
		5. Tax on motor vehicle fuels and lubricants. &#8212; The Commonwealth 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.
		6. Tax on businesses. &#8212; The Commonwealth shall have jurisdiction and
power to levy nondiscriminatory taxes on private individuals, associations and
corporations, their franchises and properties, on such lands, and on their
businesses conducted thereon.
		7. Jurisdiction of courts. &#8212; The courts of the Commonwealth shall have
concurrent jurisdiction with the courts of the United States of all civil causes
of action arising on such lands to the same extent as if the cause of action had
arisen in the county or city in which the land lies outside the Park area, and
the state officers shall have jurisdiction to enforce on such lands the
judgments of the state courts and the collection of taxes by appropriate
process.
		8. Voting residence. &#8212; Persons residing in or on any of the lands
embraced in the Park shall have the right to establish a voting residence in the
Commonwealth by reason thereof, and the consequent right to vote at all
elections within the county or city in which the land or lands upon which they
reside are located upon like terms and conditions, and to the same extent as
they would be entitled to vote in such county or city if the lands on which they
reside had not been deeded or conveyed to the United States.
		9. Fugitives. &#8212; All fugitives from justice taking refuge in the Park
shall be subject to the same laws as refugees from justice found in the
Commonwealth.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 7-22; 1966, c. 102, § 7.1-19; 2005, c. 839.