KRS 3.070: Jurisdiction of land for Mammoth Cave National Park ceded.

(1) The United States is authorized to acquire, pursuant to the provisions of this

section, as well as in pursuance to KRS 148.111, 148.121, 148.141 and 148.151, the

lands, including the caves and caverns underlying the same, within the area

hereinafter referred to, as well as any lands contiguous or adjacent thereto which

may hereafter be duly authorized for acquisition for national park purposes, for the

purpose of converting same into, and for the establishment and maintenance thereon

of, a national park as contemplated and provided for by the Act of Congress entitled

"An Act to provide for the establishment of the Mammoth Cave National Park in

the State of Kentucky, and for other purposes," approved May 25, 1926 (44 Stat.

635), and any amendments thereto. Th e lands, consisting of approximately 70,618

acres, are situated in the counties of Edmonson, Barren and Hart, in Kentucky. The

general boundaries thereof are set forth in the report of the Southern Appalachian

National Park Commission to the Secretary of the Interior, under the date of April 8,

1926.

(2) The jurisdiction of Kentucky is ceded to the United States over, within and under all

the territory so acquired by the United States. Kentucky reserves the right to tax

sales of gasoline and other motor con veyance fuels and oils for use in motor

conveyances, except to the extent that such gasoline and other fuels and oils are

used by the United States and its agents in the administration, protection,

improvement, maintenance, development and operation of the land, and the right to

tax persons, their franchises and properties, on the land so acquired. Persons

residing on the land shall have the right to vote at all elections within the respective

counties of their residence the same as if the land had not been acquired by the

United States. Jurisdiction shall not vest in the United States until the United States,

through the Secretary of the Interior, notifies the Governor of Kentucky that the

United States assumes police jurisdiction over the land so acquired.