Kansas Statutes 68-151p. Acceptance of retrocession of exclusive jurisdiction over certain state highways bordering federal reservation and penitentiary
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 68-151p
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Property: includes personal and real property. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
- Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
- road: include public bridges and may be construed to be equivalent to "county way" "county road" "common road" "state road" and "territorial road. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
The state of Kansas hereby accepts exclusive jurisdiction over certain highways bordering Fort Leavenworth military reservation and the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth which are retroceded to the state of Kansas as set forth in public law 88-501 of the United States, and described as follows:
“A strip of land one hundred feet in width along the southern boundary of the Fort Leavenworth military reservation and along the southern boundary of the Leavenworth penitentiary lands being that portion of the Fort Leavenworth military reservation donated for exclusive use as a public road by act of congress approved July 27, 1868 (15 Stat. 238), which remains United States government property, being a part of state highways numbered 92 and 7, the highway numbered United States 73, and the public road known as Mount Zion road;
“Also, a strip of land one hundred feet in width being fifty feet on each side of the centerline of the highway numbered United States 73 and state highway numbered 7 extending from the north boundary of the above described one hundred-foot strip northwesterly to the point of intersection of the centerline of said highway with the westerly boundary of said Fort Leavenworth military reservation;
“Also, that portion of the right-of-way of the public road known as Mount Zion road which extends in a northwesterly direction along the southwesterly boundary of the Leavenworth penitentiary lands.”