KRS 3.265: Limitation of jurisdiction ceded.

(1) The powers conferred by KRS 3.255 to 3.275 are solely to enable the

Commonwealth and the United States to exercise concurrent legislative jurisdiction

for purposes of criminal law enforcement over United States Department of the

Interior National Park System lands in Kentucky. No other legislative jurisdiction is

ceded by KRS 3.255 to 3.275, and there are specifically reserved over any lands as

to which any legislative jurisdiction may be ceded pursuant to KRS 3.255 to 3.275:

(a) The entire legislative juri sdiction with respect to taxation of the

Commonwealth, and of each state agency, county, urban -county government,

city, special district and other political subdivision;

(b) The entire legislative jurisdiction of the Commonwealth with respect to

marriage, divorce, annulment, adoption, the commitment or other civil

disposition of the mentally incompetent, and the descent and distribution of

property; and

(c) The power to execute any process, civil or criminal, issued under the authority

of the Commonwealth.

(2) No person residing upon such lands shall be deprived of any civil or political rights

by reason of the cession of such legislative jurisdiction to the United States.