[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2248 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2248

   To allow for waiver and indemnification in mutual law enforcement 
 agreements between the National Park Service and a State or political 
    subdivision, when required by State law, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 26, 1998

 Mr. Murkowski introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
       referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
   To allow for waiver and indemnification in mutual law enforcement 
 agreements between the National Park Service and a State or political 
    subdivision, when required by State law, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 10 of the Act of August 18, 1970, Public Law 91-383 (16 
U.S.C. 1a-6), is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (c)(2) by striking ``and'';
            (2) by redesignating paragraphs (c)(3) and (c)(4) as (c)(4) 
        and (c)(5), respectively; and
            (3) by inserting the following new paragraph:
    ``(c)(3) waive, in any agreement pursuant to paragraph (1) and (2) 
of this subsection with any state or political subdivision thereof 
where state law requires such waiver and indemnification, any and all 
claims against all the other parties thereto and, subject to available 
appropriations, indemnify and save harmless the other parties to such 
agreement from all claims by third parties for property damage or 
personal injury, which may arise out of the state or political 
subdivision's activities outside their respective jurisdictions under 
such agreement; and''.

SEC. 2. TECHNICAL AMENDMENT.

    Section 10(c)(5) is further amended by striking the paragraph (5) 
designation, by striking ``the'' at the beginning of the paragraph and 
inserting ``The'', and by removing the indentation of the first line of 
the paragraph.
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