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Are US Military bases considered US soil?

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Are US Military bases considered US soil?

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First you have to ask whether the base is on US territory or otherwise. Domestically – you can have three types of jurisdiction – exclusive, joint and proprietary. Exclusive means only the US government has authority. Joint jurisdiction means that both the state and the federal government have jurisdiction. Proprietary means essentially that the federal government does not have territorial jurisdiction over the area – such a buildings leased by a federal agency from a private party and policed by the state. What determines the status is governed by statutes passed in Congress and by the negotiations between federal agencies and and the respective state governors. For military bases, governors enticed by the prospect of economic development, secede state lands to the federal government reserving all, some or none of the jurisdictional rights they had along with that land. So, on some bases, the host state has kept the right to enforce state laws and the jurisdiction is joint, in others,

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