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Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
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.”
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Kansas Statutes Chapter 68. Roads and Bridges § 68-151p. Acceptance of retrocession of exclusive jurisdiction over certain state highways bordering federal reservation and penitentiary - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/ks/chapter-68-roads-and-bridges/ks-st-sect-68-151p/
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