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18 U.S.C. § 962 — Arming vessel against friendly nation

submitted 78 years ago by ch. 645 to r/title-18-CRIMES-AND-CRIMINAL-PROCEDURE · 162 words · no verdicts yet

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A person who in the United States supplies, equips, or arms a vessel, or tries to do so, intending that it serve a foreign prince, state, colony, district, or people to cruise against or attack people or property of a foreign prince, state, colony, district, or people with whom the United States is at peace, may be fined under title 18, imprisoned for up to 3 years, or both. The same penalty applies to a person who issues or delivers a commission in the United States for such a vessel. The vessel, its tackle, apparel, furniture, and all materials, arms, ammunition, and stores obtained to build or equip it are forfeited: one-half for the informer and one-half for the United States.

A person who in the United States supplies, equips, or arms a vessel, or tries to do so, intending that it serve a foreign prince, state, colony, district, or people to cruise against or attack people or property of a foreign prince, state, colony, district, or people with whom the United States is at peace, may be fined under title 18, imprisoned for up to 3 years, or both. The same penalty applies to a person who issues or delivers a commission in the United States for such a vessel. The vessel, its tackle, apparel, furniture, and all materials, arms, ammunition, and stores obtained to build or equip it are forfeited: one-half for the informer and one-half for the United States.
the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

Whoever, within the United States, furnishes, fits out, arms, or attempts to furnish, fit out or arm, any vessel, with intent that such vessel shall be employed in the service of any foreign prince, or state, or of any colony, district, or people, to cruise, or commit hostilities against the subjects, citizens, or property of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, district, or people with whom the United States is at peace; or

Whoever issues or delivers a commission within the United States for any vessel, to the intent that she may be so employed—

Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

Every such vessel, her tackle, apparel, and furniture, together with all materials, arms, ammunition, and stores which may have been procured for the building and equipment thereof, shall be forfeited, one half to the use of the informer and the other half to the use of the United States.

Source credit: (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 746; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(L), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit
  • 1948Enacted · Act of June 25, 1948, ch. 645 · 62 Stat. 746
  • 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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