Kentucky Revised Statutes Title I. Sovereignty and Jurisdiction of the Commonwealth § 3.270.Relinquishment of legislative jurisdiction by United States; acceptance; Governor's duties

(1) Whenever the United States, in order to enable the Commonwealth and the United States to exercise concurrent legislative jurisdiction for purposes of criminal law enforcement, tenders to the Commonwealth a relinquishment of all or part of the legislative jurisdiction theretofore acquired by it over lands within this Commonwealth for purposes of the establishment or extension of a unit of the National Park System of the United States Department of the Interior, Kentucky accepts the legislative jurisdiction so relinquished.

(2) The acceptance of such relinquishment of jurisdiction shall be indicated by a writing signed by the Governor addressed to the United States Secretary of the Interior, or as the laws of the United States may otherwise provide, and such acceptance shall be effective when said writing is deposited in the United States mails or, if it is not mailed, when it is personally handed to the Secretary of the Interior or his designee.

(3) The Governor shall negotiate with the United States, on behalf of the General Assembly, the administrative details of any relinquishment of jurisdiction by the United States under the provisions of KRS 3.255 to 3.275. In the event the Governor is of the opinion that the relinquishment of legislative jurisdiction tendered by the United States exceeds that necessary to enable the Commonwealth and the United States to exercise concurrent legislative jurisdiction for purposes of criminal law enforcement over the lands in question, or commits the Commonwealth or any of its political subdivisions to expenses or obligations beyond those necessarily entailed by the exercise of concurrent legislative jurisdiction for purposes of criminal law enforcement over the lands in question, the Governor shall not indicate the acceptance of such relinquishment of jurisdiction, and such acceptance shall not become effective until the General Assembly, at its next session, shall approve same.