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At the termination of the lease the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth shall cease and the United States shall have exclusive jurisdiction thereof.\n\n","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":1287296,"text":"Whenever the United States government has exclusive jurisdiction over property located in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and leases the property, or part thereof, to any political subdivision to be used by it for a public purpose, the exclusive jurisdiction shall cease as to the property so leased and the Commonwealth and the United States government shall have concurrent jurisdiction over the property so long as the lease continues. 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The record of this law\u2019s original creation isn\u2019t available online. It has been modified 3 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1964, chapter 362; in 1966, chapter 102; in 2005, chapter 839<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":1370203,"object_type":"law","relational_id":345283,"identifier":"1-407","token":"1\/4\/1-407","url":"\/1-407\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/1-407\/","token":"1\/4\/1-407","dublin_core":{"Title":"Concurrent jurisdiction of Commonwealth and United States over certain lands leased to political subdivisions","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 1-407","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

Whenever the United States government has exclusive jurisdiction<\/span> over property located in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and leases the property, or part thereof, to any political subdivision to be used by it for a public purpose, the exclusive jurisdiction<\/span> shall cease as to the property so leased and the Commonwealth and the United States government shall have concurrent jurisdiction<\/span> over the property so long as the lease continues. At the termination of the lease the jurisdiction<\/span> of the Commonwealth shall cease and the United States shall have exclusive jurisdiction<\/span> thereof.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nCONCURRENT JURISDICTION OF COMMONWEALTH AND UNITED STATES OVER CERTAIN LANDS\nLEASED TO POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS (\u00a7 1-407)\n\nWhenever the United States government has exclusive jurisdiction over property\nlocated in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and leases the property, or part\nthereof, to any political subdivision to be used by it for a public purpose, the\nexclusive jurisdiction shall cease as to the property so leased and the\nCommonwealth and the United States government shall have concurrent jurisdiction\nover the property so long as the lease continues. At the termination of the\nlease the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth shall cease and the United States\nshall have exclusive jurisdiction thereof.\n\nHISTORY: Code 1950, \u00a7 7-25.2; 1964, c. 362; 1966, c. 102, \u00a7 7.1-24; 2005, c.\n839.","edition":{"id":2,"name":"2026","slug":"2026","date_created":"2026-07-16 18:40:23","date_modified":"2026-08-02 15:14:36","current":1,"order_by":2,"last_import":"2026-08-02 12:37:30"}}