18 U.S.C. § 2271 — Conspiracy to destroy vessels
submitted 78 years ago by ch. 645 to r/title-18-CRIMES-AND-CRIMINAL-PROCEDURE · 127 words · no verdicts yet
This section makes conspiracy to destroy vessels a crime. It states the prohibited agreement and penalty.
Whoever, on the high seas, or within the United States, willfully and corruptly conspires, combines, and confederates with any other person, that other person being either within or without the United States, to cast away or otherwise destroy any vessel, with intent to injure any person that can have underwritten or can thereafter underwrite any policy of insurance thereon or on goods on board of it, or with intent to injure any person that has lent or advanced, or can lend or advance, any money on that vessel on bottomry or respondentia; or Whoever, within the United States, builds, or fits out any vessel to be cast away or destroyed, with like intent— is fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.
Whoever, on the high seas, or within the United States, willfully and corruptly conspires, combines, and confederates with any other person, such other person being either within or without the United States, to cast away or otherwise destroy any vessel, with intent to injure any person that may have underwritten or may thereafter underwrite any policy of insurance thereon or on goods on board thereof, or with intent to injure any person that has lent or advanced, or may lend or advance, any money on such vessel on bottomry or respondentia; or
Whoever, within the United States, builds, or fits out any vessel to be cast away or destroyed, with like intent—
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.
Source credit: (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 803; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(L), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)
- 1948Enacted · Act of June 25, 1948, ch. 645 · 62 Stat. 803
- 1994Amended · Pub. L. 103-322 · 108 Stat. 2147
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 645 on 1948-06-25.
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