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KRS 150.680: Concurrent criminal jurisdiction of portions of Trigg and Lyon Counties

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  1. KRS Chapter 150

within boundaries of Land Between the Lakes ceded to United States.

Kentucky cedes to the United States criminal jurisdiction concurrent with that of

Kentucky, solely for the purposes of Section 13 of Title 18 of the United States Code and

enforcement proceedings pursuant thereto, over those portions of Trigg and Lyon

Counties that lie within the boundaries of the Kentucky portion of Land Between the

Lakes and are more specifically described as follows:

(1) Beginning at a point in the Tennessee River at Tennessee River mile 49.2, such

being the point of separation between the Kentucky -Tennessee state line and the

Trigg County -Calloway County line; thence with the Trigg County -Calloway

County line as it meanders northward with the river for a distance of approximately

5.5 miles to a point where the Marshall County -Calloway County line intersects the

Trigg County line; thence with the Trigg County-Marshall County line and the river

as they meander northward approximately 9 miles to a point where the Trigg

County-Lyon County line intersects the Marshall County line; thence with the Lyon

County-Marshall County line in a northerly direction to a point in said county line

opposite Tennessee River mile 25.7; thence leaving the Lyon County -Marshall

County line and running N. 53 deg. 30 min. E. approximately 3,795 feet to U.S.

TVA Monument 2CN -6 in the 378 -foot contour on the east shore of Kentucky

Lake; thence with the 378 -foot contour as it m eanders northerly to the southwest

end of the canal connecting Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley; thence continuing

with the 378-foot contour as it meanders along the southeast shore of the canal in a

northeasterly direction to the northeast end of the canal; thence continuing with the

378-foot contour as it meanders eastward and southward to a point where the 378 -

foot contour intersects the Kentucky -Tennessee state line, said point being located

on the west shore of Lake Barkley opposite Cumberland River mile 74.6; thence

with the Kentucky -Tennessee state line in a westerly direction for a distance of

approximately 8.6 miles to the point of beginning. The combined distance of the

calls in the foregoing description that follow the meandering of the 378-foot contour

from U.S. TVA Monument 2CN-6 to the Kentucky-Tennessee state line on the west

shore of Lake Barkley is approximately 260 miles.

(2) Nothing in this section shall be construed as ceding to the United States any existing

legislative or other regulatory jurisdiction of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

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