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18 U.S.C. § 662 — Receiving stolen property within special maritime and territorial jurisdiction

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This section punishes knowingly buying, receiving, or hiding property stolen or embezzled from another person within the United States’ special maritime and territorial jurisdiction. The maximum imprisonment is lower when the property is worth $1,000 or less.

A person who, within the United States’ special maritime and territorial jurisdiction, buys, receives, or hides money, goods, bank notes, or another item that can be stolen, knowing it was feloniously taken, stolen, or embezzled from someone else, may be fined under this title, imprisoned for up to three years, or both. If the item is worth $1,000 or less, the punishment is a fine under this title, imprisonment for up to one year, or both.
the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

Whoever, within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States, buys, receives, or conceals any money, goods, bank notes, or other thing which may be the subject of larceny, which has been feloniously taken, stolen, or embezzled, from any other person, knowing the same to have been so taken, stolen, or embezzled, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; but if the amount or value of thing so taken, stolen or embezzled does not exceed $1,000, he shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

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

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

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