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18 U.S.C. § 2261Interstate domestic violence

submitted 32 years ago by Pub. L. 103-322 to r/title-18-CRIMES-AND-CRIMINAL-PROCEDURE · 359 words · no verdicts yet

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This section covers interstate or foreign travel and other specified conduct involving violence against a spouse, intimate partner, or dating partner. It provides different maximum or required prison terms based on the result or circumstances.

(a) Offenses. (1) Travel or conduct of offender. A person who travels in interstate or foreign commerce, enters or leaves Indian country, or is present in the United States’s special maritime and territorial jurisdiction, with intent to kill, injure, harass, or intimidate a spouse, intimate partner, or dating partner, and who during or because of that travel or presence commits or attempts a violent crime against that person, is punished under subsection (b). (2) Causing victim’s travel. A person who causes a spouse, intimate partner, or dating partner to travel in interstate or foreign commerce or enter or leave Indian country by force, coercion, duress, or fraud, and who during, because of, or to facilitate that conduct or travel commits or attempts a violent crime against that person, is punished under subsection (b). (b) Penalties. A person violating this section or § 2261A is fined under title 18 and imprisoned (1) for life or any number of years if the victim dies; (2) for up to 20 years if the victim suffers permanent disfigurement or life-threatening bodily injury; (3) for up to 10 years if the victim suffers serious bodily injury or the offender uses a dangerous weapon; (4) as chapter 109A provides if the conduct would be an offense under that chapter, without regard to where the offense occurred; (5) for up to 5 years in any other case, or both fined and imprisoned; and (6) for at least 1 year if the person stalks in violation of a temporary or permanent civil or criminal injunction, restraining order, no-contact order, or other order described in § 2266.
the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain
(a)Offenses.—
(1)Travel or conduct of offender.—

A person who travels in interstate or foreign commerce or enters or leaves Indian country or is present within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States with the intent to kill, injure, harass, or intimidate a spouse, intimate partner, or dating partner, and who, in the course of or as a result of such travel or presence, commits or attempts to commit a crime of violence against that spouse, intimate partner, or dating partner, shall be punished as provided in subsection (b).

(2)Causing travel of victim.—

A person who causes a spouse, intimate partner, or dating partner to travel in interstate or foreign commerce or to enter or leave Indian country by force, coercion, duress, or fraud, and who, in the course of, as a result of, or to facilitate such conduct or travel, commits or attempts to commit a crime of violence against that spouse, intimate partner, or dating partner, shall be punished as provided in subsection (b).

(b)Penalties.—

A person who violates this section or section 2261A shall be fined under this title, imprisoned—

(1)

for life or any term of years, if death of the victim results;

(2)

for not more than 20 years if permanent disfigurement or life threatening bodily injury to the victim results;

(3)

for not more than 10 years, if serious bodily injury to the victim results or if the offender uses a dangerous weapon during the offense;

(4)

as provided for the applicable conduct under chapter 109A if the offense would constitute an offense under chapter 109A (without regard to whether the offense was committed in the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States or in a Federal prison); and

(5)

for not more than 5 years, in any other case,

or both fined and imprisoned.

(6)

Whoever commits the crime of stalking in violation of a temporary or permanent civil or criminal injunction, restraining order, no-contact order, or other order described in section 2266 of title 18, United States Code, shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than 1 year.

Source credit: (Added Pub. L. 103–322, title IV, § 40221(a), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1926; amended Pub. L. 104–201, div. A, title X, § 1069(b)(1), (2), Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2656; Pub. L. 106–386, div. B, title I, § 1107(a), Oct. 28, 2000, 114 Stat. 1497; Pub. L. 109–162, title I, §§ 114(b), 116(a), 117(a), Jan. 5, 2006, 119 Stat. 2988, 2989; Pub. L. 113–4, title I, § 107(a), Mar. 7, 2013, 127 Stat. 77.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit
  • 1994Enacted · Pub. L. 103-322 · 108 Stat. 1926
  • 1996Amended · Pub. L. 104-201 · 110 Stat. 2656
  • 2000Amended · Pub. L. 106-386 · 114 Stat. 1497
  • 2006Amended · Pub. L. 109-162 · 119 Stat. 2988, 2989
  • 2013Amended · Pub. L. 113-4 · 127 Stat. 77

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 103-322 on 1994-09-13.

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