An Act amending the act of June 13, 1883 (P.L.118, No.105), entitled "An act ceding concurrent jurisdiction of this State over certain lands owned or hereafter acquired by the United States," providing for concurrent jurisdiction in juvenile cases.

PRINTER'S NO. 566
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 562
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY D. WILLIAMS, PIELLI, HOWARD, GIRAL, HILL-EVANS,
BURGOS, SANCHEZ, GUENST, KHAN, OTTEN, CERRATO AND GREEN,
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON INTERGOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS AND
OPERATIONS, FEBRUARY 12, 2025
AN ACT
Amending the act of June 13, 1883 (P.L.118, No.105), entitled
"An act ceding concurrent jurisdiction of this State over
certain lands owned or hereafter acquired by the United
States," providing for concurrent jurisdiction in juvenile
cases.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 1 of the act of June 13, 1883 (P.L.118,
No.105), entitled "An act ceding concurrent jurisdiction of this
State over certain lands owned or hereafter acquired by the
United States," is amended to read:
Section 1. Jurisdiction of State ceded to the United States,
in certain cases
The jurisdiction of this State is hereby ceded to the United
States of America over all such pieces or parcels of land, not
exceeding ten acres in any one township, ward or city, or
borough, within the limits of this State, as have been or shall
hereafter be selected and acquired by this United States for the
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purpose of erecting post offices, custom houses or other
structures, exclusively owned by the general government, and
used for its purposes: Provided, That an accurate description
and plan of such lands, so acquired, verified by the oath of
some officer of the general government having knowledge of the
facts, shall be filed with the Department of Internal Affairs of
this State as soon as said United States shall have acquired
possession of the same.
All such descriptions and plans heretofore filed with the
Secretary of the Commonwealth shall, as soon as it may
conveniently be done, be transferred to the Department of
Internal Affairs, and the Department of Internal Affairs shall
give to the Secretary of the Commonwealth proper receipts for
such descriptions and plans.
The jurisdiction so ceded to the United States of America is
granted upon the express condition that the Commonwealth of
[pennsylvania] Pennsylvania shall retain concurrent
jurisdiction, with the United States in and over the lands and
buildings aforesaid, in so far that civil process in all cases,
juvenile process in all cases, and such criminal process as may
issue under the authority of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
against anyone charged with crime committed outside said land,
may be executed thereon in the same manner as if this
jurisdiction had not been ceded. The United States shall retain
such jurisdiction so long as the said land shall be used for the
purposes for which jurisdiction is ceded and no longer.
The jurisdiction so ceded to the United States shall be upon
the further condition that the Commonwealth reserves to itself
and its political subdivisions whatever power of taxation it may
constitutionally reserve, to levy and collect all taxes now or
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hereafter imposed by the Commonwealth and its political
subdivisions upon property, persons, and franchises within the
boundaries so ceded.
Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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