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3.270 Relinquishment of legislative jurisdiction by United States -- Acceptance -- Governor's duties.

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3.270 Relinquishment of legislative jurisdiction by United States -- Acceptance -- Governor's duties. (1) Whenever the United States, in order to enable the Commonwealth and the United States to exercise concurrent legislative jurisdiction for purposes of criminal law <br>enforcement, tenders to the Commonwealth a relinquishment of all or part of the <br>legislative jurisdiction theretofore acquired by it over lands within this <br>Commonwealth for purposes of the establishment or extension of a unit of the <br>National Park System of the United States Department of the Interior, Kentucky <br>accepts the legislative jurisdiction so relinquished. (2) The acceptance of such relinquishment of jurisdiction shall be indicated by a writing signed by the Governor addressed to the United States Secretary of the <br>Interior, or as the laws of the United States may otherwise provide, and such <br>acceptance shall be effective when said writing is deposited in the United States <br>mails or, if it is not mailed, when it is personally handed to the Secretary of the <br>Interior or his designee. (3) The Governor shall negotiate with the United States, on behalf of the General Assembly, the administrative details of any relinquishment of jurisdiction by the <br>United States under the provisions of KRS 3.255 to 3.275. In the event the <br>Governor is of the opinion that the relinquishment of legislative jurisdiction <br>tendered by the United States exceeds that necessary to enable the Commonwealth <br>and the United States to exercise concurrent legislative jurisdiction for purposes of <br>criminal law enforcement over the lands in question, or commits the <br>Commonwealth or any of its political subdivisions to expenses or obligations <br>beyond those necessarily entailed by the exercise of concurrent legislative <br>jurisdiction for purposes of criminal law enforcement over the lands in question, the <br>Governor shall not indicate the acceptance of such relinquishment of jurisdiction, <br>and such acceptance shall not become effective until the General Assembly, at its <br>next session, shall approve same. Effective: June 17, 1978 <br>History: Created 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 68, sec. 5, effective June 17, 1978.