18 U.S.C. § 2266 — Definitions

In this chapter: (1) “Bodily injury” means any act, except self-defense, that causes physical injury or sexual abuse. (2) “Course of conduct” means a pattern of two or more acts showing continuity of purpose. (3) “Enter or leave Indian country” includes leaving one tribal government’s jurisdiction and entering another’s. (4) “Indian country” has the meaning in § 1151; this section does not define it. (5) “Protection order” includes (A) an injunction, restraining order, or other civil or criminal court order preventing violence, threats, harassment, sexual violence, contact, communication, or proximity, including temporary or final orders issued after a protection complaint, petition, or motion, and (B) support, custody, visitation, remedies, or relief included in such an order under state, tribal, territorial, or local law protecting victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, or stalking. (6) “Serious bodily injury” has the meaning in § 2119(2); this section does not define it. (7) “Spouse or intimate partner” includes (A) for sections other than § 2261A, the abuser’s spouse or former spouse, a person sharing a child with the abuser, a person who lives or lived with the abuser as a spouse, and a person in a romantic or intimate social relationship with the abuser judged by relationship length, type, and interaction frequency; for § 2261A, the corresponding people are defined in relation to the stalking target; and (B) another person similarly situated to a spouse who is protected by the domestic or family-violence law of the place of injury or victim residence. (8) “State” includes a United States state, the District of Columbia, and a commonwealth, territory, or possession. (9) “Travel in interstate or foreign commerce” does not include travel from one State to another by an Indian-tribe member who stays entirely within that tribe’s territory. (10) “Dating partner” means a person who is or was in a romantic or intimate social relationship with the abuser, judged by (A) length, (B) type, and (C) interaction frequency. (11) “Pet” means a domesticated animal, such as a dog, cat, bird, rodent, fish, turtle, or another animal kept for pleasure rather than commercial purposes. (12) “Emotional support animal” means an animal covered by the exclusion in 24 C.F.R. § 5.303, or a successor rule, that is not a service animal. (13) “Service animal” has the meaning in 28 C.F.R. § 36.104, or a successor rule; this section does not define it.