48 U.S.C. § 1417 — Criminal jurisdiction
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Acts and offenses on the listed islands, rocks, keys, or nearby waters are treated as occurring on the high seas or aboard a United States merchant vessel. United States laws for those places and offenses apply there.
Every act and every offense or crime committed on an island, rock, or key listed in section 1411, by someone who lands there or in the adjacent waters, is treated as committed on the high seas or aboard a United States merchant ship or vessel. United States laws concerning those ships or vessels and high-seas offenses apply to those islands, rocks, and keys for this purpose.
All acts done, and offenses or crimes committed, on any island, rock, or key mentioned in section 1411 of this title, by persons who may land thereon, or in the waters adjacent thereto, shall be deemed committed on the high seas, on board a merchant ship or vessel belonging to the United States; and shall be punished according to the laws of the United States relating to such ships or vessels and offenses on the high seas, which laws for the purpose aforesaid are extended over such islands, rocks, and keys.
Source credit: (R.S. § 5576.)
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