Terms Used In Missouri Laws 226.400

  • 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 real and personal property. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • State: when applied to any of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • United States: includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020

This state hereby cedes to the United States concurrent jurisdiction to regulate use of such parkway areas and traffic on such parkway road, to protect the areas and property thereon belonging to the United States from damage, depredation or destruction, to operate and administer the areas and property of the United States embraced in said parkway as a national parkway, when consistent with the current uses of other federal departments through whose areas such parkway extends.