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18 U.S.C. § 661 — Within special maritime and territorial jurisdiction

submitted 78 years ago by ch. 645 to r/title-18-CRIMES-AND-CRIMINAL-PROCEDURE · 156 words · no verdicts yet

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This section punishes taking another person’s personal property within the United States’ special maritime and territorial jurisdiction with intent to steal it. The maximum punishment depends on the property’s value and whether it was taken directly from a person.

A person who, within the United States’ special maritime and territorial jurisdiction, takes and carries away another person’s personal property intending to steal it may be punished as follows. If the property is worth more than $1,000, or was taken from a person, the punishment is a fine under this title, imprisonment for up to five years, or both. In every other case, the punishment is a fine under this title, imprisonment for up to one year, or both. If the stolen property is evidence of a debt or another written instrument, its value is the unpaid amount due or secured by it, the amount that might be collected under any contingency, the value of the property whose title it shows, or the amount that could be recovered without it.
the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

Whoever, within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States, takes and carries away, with intent to steal or purloin, any personal property of another shall be punished as follows:

If the property taken is of a value exceeding $1,000, or is taken from the person of another, by a fine under this title, or imprisonment for not more than five years, or both; in all other cases, by a fine under this title or by imprisonment not more than one year, or both.

If the property stolen consists of any evidence of debt, or other written instrument, the amount of money due thereon, or secured to be paid thereby and remaining unsatisfied, or which in any contingency might be collected thereon, or the value of the property the title to which is shown thereby, or the sum which might be recovered in the absence thereof, shall be the value of the property stolen.

Source credit: (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 731; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(H), (K), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147; Pub. L. 104–294, title VI, §§ 601(a)(3), 606(a), Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3498, 3511.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit
  • 1948Enacted · Act of June 25, 1948, ch. 645 · 62 Stat. 731
  • 1994Amended · Pub. L. 103-322 · 108 Stat. 2147
  • 1996Amended · Pub. L. 104-294 · 110 Stat. 3498, 3511

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 645 on 1948-06-25.

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