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AN ACT to Revise, Codify, and Enact Into Positive Law, Title 18 of the United States Code, Entitled [PUBLIC LAW 772-80TH CONGRESS] [CHAPTER 645-2D SESSION] [H. R. 3190] AN ACT To revise, codify, and enact into positive law, Title 18 of the United States Code, entitled "Crimes and Criminal Procedure". Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Title 18 of the United States Code, entitled "Crimes and Criminal Procedure", is hereby revised, codified, and enacted into positive law, and may be cited as "Title 18, U. S. C., § ", as follows: TITLE 18-CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE Part Sec. I. CRIMES __________________________________----------------------- 1 II. CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ___-------------__ -------------_____________ 3001 III. PRISONS AND PRISONERS _-___-__-----_--- _______--____-- ____---____ 4001 IV. CORRECTION OF YOUTHFUL OFFENDERS--- ___--- ____________________ 5001 PART I--CIMES Chapter Sec. 1. General provisions _____--- ________---_--___--_ ------------------ 1 3. Animals, birds and fish------------------------- ___________ 41 5. Arson ------------------------------- 81 7. Assault -------------------------------------...---___--, . ....... 111 9. Bankruptcy ------------ …--------________________________--------151 11. Bribery and graft ----------------_____ ___________ --__ ---------- 201 13. Civil rights __.-----------------------------------------------.-- 241 15. Claims and services in matters affecting government ___-----_------ 281 17. Coins and currency------------___---- ---------------------------- 331 19. Conspiracy __-_------------------------------------------------- 371 21. Contempts constituting crimes _________-__--____________--__----- 401 23. Contracts _----------____________----------_____________________- 431 25. Counterfeiting and forgery _____________________________-- -____ 471 27. Customs -___--__---____--____---________________________________ 541 29. Elections and political activities ---------------_--__-- __-- -_-_ ---- 591 31. Embezzlement and theft ___________________________________…----- 641 33. Emblems, insignia, and names ---------------------------------- __ 701 35. Escape and rescue----__--_____-- -----______________---_____----- 751 37. Espionage and censorship ____________________________------- …--- 791 39. Explosives and combustibles-__--.. _____________________ ..........831 41. Extortion and threats ----- _____________-- - ---- _ ---- 871 43. False personation ---------------------------- 911 45. Foreign relations ----------------- _ _--------------------------- 951 47. Fraud and false statements ______________________________-_______ 1001 49. Fugitives from justice------ _--- -/ -______^_--....... 1071 51. Homicide _________…------------------------_____________________ 1111 53. Indians ____------------------------------------------------ - 1151 55. Kidnaping _-----------------------------________________________ 1201 57. Labor -------------------------------- -------- 1231 59. Liquor traffiC---. ----------------------_____ 1261 61. Lotteries --------------------------------------- . 1301 63. M ail fraud…-- -- -- - -- -- - -- -- - -- -- -- - -- -- - -- - 1341 65. Malicious mischief ------------------------- _ 1361 67. Military and Navy_-_____________________---------------------- _ 1381 78315 o-48--1 [PUB. LAW 772.] 2 Chapter Sec. 69. Nationality and citizenship ------------------------------------- 1421 71. Obscenity ------------------------------------------------------ 1461 73. Obstruction of justice ------------------------ ------------------- 1501 75. Passports and visas --------------------------------------------- 1541 77. Peonage and slavery____---------------------------- 1581 79. Perjury _.. ...................--------------------------------1621 81. Piracy and privateering ---------------------__-____ ------------- 1651 83. Postal service ----. _…--__-- __ __ __ __-------------------------1691 85. Prison-made goods ---------------------------------------------- 1761 87. Prisons ________________________________________ 1791 89. Professions and occupations _______-__-------- ------------------- 1821 91., Public lands__________----------------- -- ------------------------ 1851 93. Public officers and employees___---------------------------- ------ 1901 95. Racketeering - _________________________---------------- 1951 97. Railroads ------------------------------------- 1991 99. Rape -_ 2031 101. Records and reports --- _----------------------------- - 2071 103. Robbery and burglary____________----------__------------------- 2111 105. Sabotage ------------------------------------------------------- 2151 107. Seamen and stowaways ________-______-__----------------------- 2191 109. Searches rand seizures _____…__…---------------------------------- 2231 111. Shipping ______----- ____----_---_______________----------------- 2271 113. Stolen property _…______---_------ - --- -------------------------- 2311 115. Treason, sedition and subversive activities ------------------------- 2381 117. White slave traffic ________…---------------------------- 2421 CHAPTER 1--GENERAT PROVISIONS Sec. 1. Offenses classified. 2. Principals. 3. Accessoc after the fact. 4. Misprision of felony. 5. United States defined. 6. Department and agency defined. 7. Special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States defined. 8. Obligation or other security of the United States defined. 9. Vessel of the United States defined. 10. Interstate commerce and foreign commerce defined. 11. Foreign government defined. 12. Postal Service defined. 13. Laws of States adopted for areas within Federal jurisdiction. 14. Applicability to Canal Zone. § 1. OFFENSES CLASSIFIED Notwithstanding any Act of Congress to the contrary: (1) Any offense punishable by death or imprisonment for a term exceeding one year is a felony. (2) Any other offense is a misdemeanor. (3) Any misdemeanor, the penalty for which does not exceed impris- onment for a period of six months or a fine of not more than $500, or both, is a petty offense. § 2. PRINCIPALS (a) Whoever commits an offense against the United States, or aids, abets, counsels, commands, induces, or procures its commission, is a principal. (b) Whoever causes an act to be done, which if directly performed by him would be an offense against the United States, is also a principal and punishable as such. 3 iP'B. LAW 772.1 § 3. ACCESSORY AFTER'THE FACT Whoever, knowing that an offense against the United States has been committed, receives, relieves, comforts or assists the offender in order to hinder or prevent his apprehension, trial or punishment, is an acces- sory after the fact. Except as otherwise expressly provided by any Act of Congress, an accessory after the fact shall be imprisoned not more than one-half the maximum term of imprisonment or fined not more than one-half the maximum fine prescribed for the punishment of the principal, or both; or if the principal is punishable by death, the accessory shall be impris- oned not more than ten years. § 4. MIISPRISION OF FELONY Whoever, having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony cognizable by a court of the United States, conceals and does not as soon as porsible make known the same to some judge or other person in civil or military authority under the United States, shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than three years, or both. § 5. UNITED STATES DEFINED The term "United States", as used in this title in a territorial sense, includes all places and waters, continental or insular, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, except the Canal Zone. § 6. DEPARTMIENT AND AGENCY' DEFINED As used in this title: The term "department" means one of the executive departments enu- merated in section 1 of Title 5, unless the context shows that such term was intended to describe the executive, legislative, or judicial branches of the government. The term "agency" includes any department, independent establish- meni;, commission, administration, authority, board or bureau of the United States or any corporation in which the United States has a proprietary interest, unless the context shows that such term was itended to be used in a more limited sense. § 7. SPECIAL 5MARITIME AND TERRITORIAL JURISDICTION OF THE UNITED STATES DEFINED The term "special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States", as used in this title, includes: (1) The high seas, any other waters within the admiralty and mari- time jurisdiction of the United States and out of the jurisdiction of any particular State, and any vessel belonging in whole or in part to the United States or any citizen thereof, or to any corporation created by or under the laws of the United States, or of any State, Territory, Dis- trict, or possession thereof, when such vessel is within the adlllirally and maritime jurisdiction of the United States and out of the jurisdic- tion of any particular State. (2) Any vessel registered, licensed, or enrolled under the laws of the United States, and being on a voyage upon the waters of any of the Great Lakes, or any of the waters connecting them, or upon the Saint Lawrence River where the same constitutes the International Boundary Line. IPus. LAW 772.] 4 (3) Any lands reserved or acquired for the use of the United States, and under the exclusive or concurrent jurisdiction thereof, or any place purchased or otherwise acquired by the United States by consent of the legislature of the State in which the same shall be, for the erec- tion of a fort, magazine, arsenal, dockyard, or other needful building. (4) Any island,
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