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

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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
enforcement, tenders to the Commonwealth a relinquishment of all or part of the
legislative jurisdiction theretofore acquired by it over lands within this
Commonwealth for purposes of the establishment or extension of a unit of the
National Park System of the United States Department of the Interior, Kentucky
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
Interior, or as the laws of the United States may otherwise provide, and such
acceptance shall be effective when said writing is deposited in the United States
mails or, if it is not mailed, when it is personally handed to the Secretary of the
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
United States under the provisions of KRS 3.255 to 3.275. In the event the
Governor is of the opinion that the relinquishment of legislative jurisdiction
tendered by the United States exceeds that necessary to enable the Commonwealth
and the United States to exercise concurrent legislative jurisdiction for purposes of
criminal law enforcement over the lands in question, or commits the
Commonwealth or any of its political subdivisions to expenses or obligations
beyond those necessarily entailed by the exercise of concurrent legislative
jurisdiction for purposes of criminal law enforcement over the lands in question, the
Governor shall not indicate the acceptance of such relinquishment of jurisdiction,
and such acceptance shall not become effective until the General Assembly, at its
next session, shall approve same. Effective: June 17, 1978
History: Created 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 68, sec. 5, effective June 17, 1978.