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CITE

    49 USC Sec. 46506                                           01/08/2008

EXPCITE

    TITLE 49 - TRANSPORTATION
    SUBTITLE VII - AVIATION PROGRAMS
    PART A - AIR COMMERCE AND SAFETY
    subpart iv - enforcement and penalties
    CHAPTER 465 - SPECIAL AIRCRAFT JURISDICTION OF THE UNITED STATES

HEAD

    Sec. 46506. Application of certain criminal laws to acts on
      aircraft

STATUTE

      An individual on an aircraft in the special aircraft jurisdiction
    of the United States who commits an act that -
        (1) if committed in the special maritime and territorial
      jurisdiction of the United States (as defined in section 7 of
      title 18) would violate section 113, 114, 661, 662, 1111, 1112,
      1113, or 2111 or chapter 109A of title 18, shall be fined under
      title 18, imprisoned under that section or chapter, or both; or
        (2) if committed in the District of Columbia would violate
      section 9 of the Act of July 29, 1892 (D.C. Code Sec. 22-1112),
      shall be fined under title 18, imprisoned under section 9 of the
      Act, or both.

SOURCE

    (Pub. L. 103-272, Sec. 1(e), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 1245.)

HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES --------------------------------------------------------------------

      Revised       Source (U.S. Code)       Source (Statutes at Large)
      Section
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    46506          49 App.:1472(k).        Aug. 23, 1958, Pub. L.
                                            85-726, 72 Stat. 731, Sec.
                                            902(k); added Sept. 5, 1961,
                                            Pub. L. 87-197, Sec. 1, 75
                                            Stat. 466; Oct. 14, 1970,
                                            Pub. L. 91-449, Sec. 1(3),
                                            84 Stat. 921; Nov. 10, 1986,
                                            Pub. L. 99-646, Sec.
                                            87(d)(8), 100 Stat. 3624;
                                            Nov. 14, 1986, Pub. L.
                                            99-654, Sec. 3(b)(8), 100
                                            Stat. 3664.
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      In clause (1), the words "fined under title 18, imprisoned under
    that section or chapter, or both" are substituted for "punished as
    provided therein" for consistency with title 18.
      In clause (2), the words "fined under title 18, imprisoned under
    section 9 of the Act, or both" are substituted for "punished as
    provided therein" for consistency with title 18.

REFERENCES IN TEXT

      Section 9 of the Act of July 29, 1892, referred to in par. (2),
    is section 9 of act July 29, 1892, ch. 320, 27 Stat. 324, as
    amended, which is not classified to the Code.