PRINTER'S NO. 980
No. 894 Session of 1979
INTRODUCED BY COLE, SCHEAFFER AND DeMEDIO, MARCH 28, 1979
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, MARCH 28, 1979
AN ACT
1 Providing for cession by the Governor to the United States of
2 jurisdiction over certain lands within Commonwealth
3 boundaries.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. General provisions.
7 (a) The Governor is hereby authorized to cede to the United
8 States jurisdiction over land within the boundaries of the
9 Commonwealth in which the United States has an interest. Such
10 jurisdiction shall remain in the United States for so long as
11 the United States retains an interest in the land and no longer.
12 (b) Jurisdiction shall be ceded to the United States upon
13 the express condition that the Commonwealth shall retain
14 concurrent jurisdiction insofar that civil process in all cases,
15 and such criminal process as may issue under the authority of
16 the Commonwealth against anyone charged with crime committed
17 outside said land, may be executed thereon in the same manner as
18 if jurisdiction had not been ceded.
19 (c) Jurisdiction shall be ceded to the United States upon
1 the further condition that the Commonwealth reserves to itself
2 and its political subdivisions such power of taxation as it may
3 constitutionally reserve, to levy and collect all taxes now or
4 hereafter imposed by the Commonwealth and its political
5 subdivisions upon property, persons and franchises within the
6 boundaries so ceded.
7 Section 2. Procedure.
8 Cesssion of jurisdiction shall be affected upon completion of
9 the following procedure:
10 (1) The Governor shall give public notice of intent to
11 cede jurisdiction by publication in the Pennsylvania
12 Bulletin. Cession of jurisdiction shall not become effective
13 less than 30 days after such public notice.
14 (2) Written notice of acceptance of jurisdiction shall
15 be filed with the Governor by the United States, or any
16 department or agency thereof.
17 Section 3. Effective date.
18 This act shall take effect immediately.
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