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Code · BILL · 116th Congress · H.R. 51 (Placed on Calendar Senate) — To provide for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union. · Sec. 201

Sec. 201. Treatment of military lands

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Subject to paragraph
(2)and subsection
(b)and notwithstanding the admission of the State into the Union, authority is reserved in the United States for the exercise by Congress of the power of exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever over such tracts or parcels of land located in the State that, on the day before the date of the admission of the State into the Union, are controlled or owned by the United States and held for defense or Coast Guard purposes. The power of exclusive legislation described in paragraph
(1)shall vest and remain in the United States only so long as the particular tract or parcel of land involved is controlled or owned by the United States and held for defense or Coast Guard purposes. The reservation of authority in the United States under subsection
(a)shall not operate to prevent such tracts or parcels of land from being a part of the State, or to prevent the State from exercising over or upon such lands, concurrently with the United States, any jurisdiction which it would have in the absence of such reservation of authority and which is consistent with the laws hereafter enacted by Congress pursuant to such reservation of authority. The State shall have the right to serve civil or criminal process in such tracts or parcels of land in which the authority of the United States is reserved under subsection
(a)in suits or prosecutions for or on account of rights acquired, obligations incurred, or crimes committed in the State but outside of such lands.
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