§ 27-69-109 - Concurrent jurisdiction -- Reserved powers and jurisdiction. - Arkansas Statutes

27-69-109. Concurrent jurisdiction -- Reserved powers and jurisdiction.

(a) This state cedes to the United States and current jurisdiction to so regulate that the United States shall exercise concurrent jurisdiction:

(1) To regulate use of parkway areas and traffic on the parkway road and protect the areas and property thereon belonging to the United States from damage, depredation, or destruction;

(2) To operate and administer the areas and property of the United States embraced in the parkway as a national parkway, when consistent with the current uses of other federal departments through whose areas the parkway extends;

(3) To prosecute in the federal courts any violation of parkway regulations.

(b) There is preserved to this state or its political subdivisions thereof in which parkway areas are located:

(1) All other powers and expressly and specifically reserves thereto jurisdiction in all civil and criminal matters;

(2) The power to levy and collect a tax on all motor vehicle fuels and lubricants on the parkway and a tax on the sale thereof and of other products and services sold on the parkway, or on any part of the property conveyed to the United States pursuant to this subchapter, except sales to and for exclusive use of the federal government;

(3) The jurisdiction and power to tax and license or to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors on any areas so conveyed, or to be conveyed;

(4) The right to levy and collect a tax on all property, including buildings erected thereon, not belonging to the United States;

(5) The authority to require licenses and impose license taxes upon any business or businesses conducted thereon under lease with the United States.

(c) The above powers enumerated as expressly and specifically reserved to this state or political subdivisions thereof, in which parkway areas are situated, shall not be construed as being in any respect inconsistent with or impairing the powers of the United States.

(d) By mutual agreement between federal and state or local authorities, their respective patrolmen may cooperate in the enforcement of parkway regulations and controlling parades or convoys on the parkway road.