§ 3-1-130 — Rocky Mountain National Park

(1) Exclusive jurisdiction shall be
and the same is hereby ceded to the United States of America over and within all of
the territory which is now included in that tract of land in the state of Colorado set
aside and dedicated for park purposes by the United States, known as the Rocky
Mountain National Park, saving, to the state of Colorado to the right to serve civil or
criminal process within the limits of the aforesaid park, in suits or prosecutions for
or on account of rights acquired, obligations incurred, or crimes committed outside
of said park, and saving further to the said state the right to tax persons and
corporations, their franchises and property on the lands included in said tracts, and
saving, also, to the persons residing in said park now or hereafter the right to vote
at all elections held within the county or counties in which said tracts are situated;
and saving to all persons residing within said park upon lands now privately owned
within said park access to and from such lands, and all rights and privileges as
citizens of the United States and saving to the people of Colorado all vested,
appropriated, and existing water rights and rights-of-way connected therewith,
including all existing irrigation conduits and ditches; but jurisdiction shall not vest
in the United States now or hereafter over any lands included within said park until
the United States, through its proper officers, notifies the state of Colorado,
through its governor, that the United States assumes police jurisdiction over the
respective tracts involved.

(2) Exclusive jurisdiction is hereby ceded to the United States over and
within all the territory added since February 19, 1929, to that tract of land in the
state of Colorado set aside and dedicated for park purposes by the United States,
known as the Rocky Mountain National Park; saving, to the state of Colorado all
criminal and civil jurisdiction over the existing sixty feet in width right-of-way of the
westbound traffic lanes of state highway No. 262, also known as the Moraine Park
road, and a strip of land thirty feet to either side of the center line of the eastbound
traffic lanes lying south of the westbound traffic lanes of said state highway No.
262, together with the connecting roads between the eastbound and westbound
traffic lanes of said highway, as rerouted and constructed by the United States
where such lie within the boundaries of aforesaid National Park in the northwest
quarter of section 35, township 5 north, range 73 west of the 6th p.m.; also, saving
to the state of Colorado the right to serve civil or criminal process within the limits
of the aforesaid park, in suits or prosecutions for or on account of rights acquired,
obligations incurred, or crimes committed outside of said park, and saving to the
state the right to tax persons and corporations, their franchises and property on
lands included in the added tracts, and saving to persons residing in said park the
right to vote at all elections held within the county or counties in which the tracts
are situated, and saving to all persons residing within the park upon lands now
privately owned within the addition to the park, access to and from such lands, and
all rights and privileges as citizens of the United States, and saving to the people of
Colorado all vested, adjudicated, appropriated, and existing water rights and rights-of-way connected therewith, including all existing domestic or irrigation conduits
and ditches; but jurisdiction shall not vest in the United States now or hereafter
over any lands included within said park until the United States, through its proper
officers, notifies the state, through its governor, that the United States assumes
police jurisdiction over the respective tracts involved.

Legislative History

Source: L. 29: p. 475, � 1. CSA: C. 168, � 33. CRS 53: � 142-1-33. L. 61: p. 837, � 1. C.R.S. 1963: � 143-1-33.