18 U.S.C. § 1851 — Coal depredations
submitted 78 years ago by ch. 645 to r/title-18-CRIMES-AND-CRIMINAL-PROCEDURE · 70 words · no verdicts yet
A person who mines or removes United States coal intending to wrongfully take, sell, or dispose of it must be fined, imprisoned for up to one year, or both. The section preserves rights or privileges granted by existing United States laws.
A person who mines or removes coal of any kind—anthracite, bituminous coal, or lignite—from beds or deposits on land belonging to, or reserved to, the United States, intending wrongfully to take, sell, or dispose of it, must be fined under this title, imprisoned for up to 1 year, or both. This section does not interfere with any right or privilege granted by existing United States laws.
Whoever mines or removes coal of any character, whether anthracite, bituminous, or lignite, from beds or deposits in lands of, or reserved to the United States, with intent wrongfully to appropriate, sell, or dispose of the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
This section shall not interfere with any right or privilege conferred by existing laws of the United States.
Source credit: (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 787; Pub. L. 104–294, title VI, § 601(a)(8), Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3498.)
- 1948Enacted · Act of June 25, 1948, ch. 645 · 62 Stat. 787
- 1996Amended · Pub. L. 104-294 · 110 Stat. 3498
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 645 on 1948-06-25.
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