HB 562 — 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
 1   Amending the act of June 13, 1883 (P.L.118, No.105), entitled
 2      "An act ceding concurrent jurisdiction of this State over
 3      certain lands owned or hereafter acquired by the United
 4      States," providing for concurrent jurisdiction in juvenile
 5      cases.
 6      The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 7   hereby enacts as follows:
 8      Section 1.    Section 1 of the act of June 13, 1883 (P.L.118,
 9   No.105), entitled "An act ceding concurrent jurisdiction of this
10   State over certain lands owned or hereafter acquired by the
11   United States," is amended to read:
12      Section 1.    Jurisdiction of State ceded to the United States,
13   in certain cases
14      The jurisdiction of this State is hereby ceded to the United
15   States of America over all such pieces or parcels of land, not
16   exceeding ten acres in any one township, ward or city, or
17   borough, within the limits of this State, as have been or shall
18   hereafter be selected and acquired by this United States for the
 1   purpose of erecting post offices, custom houses or other
 2   structures, exclusively owned by the general government, and
 3   used for its purposes: Provided, That an accurate description
 4   and plan of such lands, so acquired, verified by the oath of
 5   some officer of the general government having knowledge of the
 6   facts, shall be filed with the Department of Internal Affairs of
 7   this State as soon as said United States shall have acquired
 8   possession of the same.
 9      All such descriptions and plans heretofore filed with the
10   Secretary of the Commonwealth shall, as soon as it may
11   conveniently be done, be transferred to the Department of
12   Internal Affairs, and the Department of Internal Affairs shall
13   give to the Secretary of the Commonwealth proper receipts for
14   such descriptions and plans.
15      The jurisdiction so ceded to the United States of America is
16   granted upon the express condition that the Commonwealth of
17   [pennsylvania] Pennsylvania shall retain concurrent
18   jurisdiction, with the United States in and over the lands and
19   buildings aforesaid, in so far that civil process in all cases,
20   juvenile process in all cases, and such criminal process as may
21   issue under the authority of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
22   against anyone charged with crime committed outside said land,
23   may be executed thereon in the same manner as if this
24   jurisdiction had not been ceded. The United States shall retain
25   such jurisdiction so long as the said land shall be used for the
26   purposes for which jurisdiction is ceded and no longer.
27      The jurisdiction so ceded to the United States shall be upon
28   the further condition that the Commonwealth reserves to itself
29   and its political subdivisions whatever power of taxation it may
30   constitutionally reserve, to levy and collect all taxes now or

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1   hereafter imposed by the Commonwealth and its political
2   subdivisions upon property, persons, and franchises within the
3   boundaries so ceded.
4      Section 2.   This act shall take effect immediately.




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