Federal

Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure

1,399 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 2074 — False weather reports
• § 2075 — Officer failing to make returns or reports
• § 2076 — Clerk of United States District Court
• § 208 — Acts affecting a personal financial interest
• § 209 — Salary of Government officials and employees payable only by United States
• § 21 — Stolen or counterfeit nature of property for certain crimes defined
• § 210 — Offer to procure appointive public office
• § 2101 — Riots
• § 2102 — Definitions
• § 211 — Acceptance or solicitation to obtain appointive public office
• § 2111 — Special maritime and territorial jurisdiction
• § 2112 — Personal property of United States
• § 2113 — Bank robbery and incidental crimes
• § 2114 — Mail, money, or other property of United States
• § 2115 — Post office
• § 2116 — Railway or steamboat post office
• § 2117 — Breaking or entering carrier facilities
• § 2118 — Robberies and burglaries involving controlled substances
• § 2119 — Motor vehicles
• § 212 — Offer of loan or gratuity to financial institution examiner
• § 213 — Acceptance of loan or gratuity by financial institution examiner
• § 214 — Offer for procurement of Federal Reserve bank loan and discount of commercial paper
• § 215 — Receipt of commissions or gifts for procuring loans
• § 2151 — Definitions
• § 2152 — Fortifications, harbor defenses, or defensive sea areas
• § 2153 — Destruction of war material, war premises, or war utilities
• § 2154 — Production of defective war material, war premises, or war utilities
• § 2155 — Destruction of national-defense materials, national-defense premises, or national-defense utilities
• § 2156 — Production of defective national-defense material, national-defense premises, or national-defense utilities
• § 2157 — Repealed. Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330004(13) , Sept. 13, 1994 , 108 Stat. 2142 ]
• § 216 — Penalties and injunctions
• § 217 — Acceptance of consideration for adjustment of farm indebtedness
• § 218 — Voiding transactions in violation of chapter; recovery by the United States
• § 219 — Officers and employees acting as agents of foreign principals
• § 2191 — Cruelty to seamen
• § 2192 — Incitation of seamen to revolt or mutiny
• § 2193 — Revolt or mutiny of seamen
• § 2194 — Shanghaiing sailors
• § 2195 — Abandonment of sailors
• § 2196 — Drunkenness or neglect of duty by seamen
• § 2197 — Misuse of Federal certificate, license or document
• § 2198 — Repealed. Pub. L. 101–647, title XII, § 1207(b) , Nov. 29, 1990 , 104 Stat. 4832 ]
• § 2199 — Stowaways on vessels or aircraft
• § 220 — Illegal remunerations for referrals to recovery homes, clinical treatment facilities, and laboratories
• § 221, 222 — Renumbered §§ 216, 217]
• § 223 — Repealed. Pub. L. 87–849, § 1(c) , Oct. 23, 1962 , 76 Stat. 1125 ]
• § 2231 — Assault or resistance
• § 2232 — Destruction or removal of property to prevent seizure
• § 2233 — Rescue of seized property
• § 2234 — Authority exceeded in executing warrant
• § 2235 — Search warrant procured maliciously
• § 2236 — Searches without warrant
• § 2237 — Criminal sanctions for failure to heave to, obstruction of boarding, or providing false information
• § 224 — Bribery in sporting contests
• § 2241 — Aggravated sexual abuse
• § 2242 — Sexual abuse
• § 2243 — Sexual abuse of a minor, a ward, or an individual in Federal custody
• § 2244 — Abusive sexual contact
• § 2245 — Offenses resulting in death
• § 2246 — Definitions for chapter
• § 2247 — Repeat offenders
• § 2248 — Mandatory restitution
• § 225 — Continuing financial crimes enterprise
• § 2250 — Failure to register
• § 2251 — Sexual exploitation of children
• § 2251A — Selling or buying of children
• § 2252 — Certain activities relating to material involving the sexual exploitation of minors
• § 2252A — Certain activities relating to material constituting or containing child pornography
• § 2252B — Misleading domain names on the Internet
• § 2252C — Misleading words or digital images on the Internet
• § 2253 — Criminal forfeiture
• § 2254 — Civil forfeiture
• § 2255 — Civil remedy for personal injuries
• § 2256 — Definitions for chapter
• § 2257 — Record keeping requirements
• § 2257A — Record keeping requirements for simulated sexual conduct
• § 2258 — Failure to report child abuse
• § 2258A — Reporting requirements of providers
• § 2258B — Limited liability for the reporting, storage, and handling of certain visual depictions of apparent child pornography to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
• § 2258C — Use to combat child pornography of technical elements relating to reports made to the CyberTipline
• § 2258D — Limited liability for NCMEC
• § 2258E — Definitions
• § 2259 — Mandatory restitution
• § 2259A — Assessments in child pornography cases
• § 2259B — Child pornography victims reserve
• § 226 — Bribery affecting port security
• § 2260 — Production of sexually explicit depictions of a minor for importation into the United States
• § 2260A — Penalties for registered sex offenders
• § 2261 — Interstate domestic violence
• § 2261A — Stalking
• § 2261B — Enhanced penalty for stalkers of children
• § 2262 — Interstate violation of protection order
• § 2263 — Pretrial release of defendant
• § 2264 — Restitution
• § 2265 — Full faith and credit given to protection orders
• § 2265A — Repeat offenders
• § 2266 — Definitions
• § 227 — Wrongfully influencing a private entity’s employment decisions by a Member of Congress or an officer or employee of the legislative or executive branch
• § 2271 — Conspiracy to destroy vessels
• § 2272 — Destruction of vessel by owner
• § 2273 — Destruction of vessel by nonowner
• § 2274 — Destruction or misuse of vessel by person in charge
• § 2275 — Firing or tampering with vessels
• § 2276 — Breaking and entering vessel
• § 2277 — Explosives or dangerous weapons aboard vessels
• § 2278 — Explosives on vessels carrying steerage passengers
• § 2279 — Boarding vessels before arrival
• § 228 — Failure to pay legal child support obligations
• § 2280 — Violence against maritime navigation
• § 2280a — Violence against maritime navigation and maritime transport involving weapons of mass destruction
• § 2281 — Violence against maritime fixed platforms
• § 2281a — Additional offenses against maritime fixed platforms
• § 2282A — Devices or dangerous substances in waters of the United States likely to destroy or damage ships or to interfere with maritime commerce
• § 2282B — Violence against aids to maritime navigation
• § 2283 — Transportation of explosive, biological, chemical, or radioactive or nuclear materials
• § 2284 — Transportation of terrorists
• § 2285 — Operation of submersible vessel or semi-submersible vessel without nationality
• § 229 — Prohibited activities
• § 2290 — Jurisdiction and scope
• § 2291 — Destruction of vessel or maritime facility
• § 2292 — Imparting or conveying false information
• § 2293 — Bar to prosecution
• § 229A — Penalties
• § 229B — Criminal forfeitures; destruction of weapons
• § 229C — Individual self-defense devices
• § 229D — Injunctions
• § 229E — Requests for military assistance to enforce prohibition in certain emergencies
• § 229F — Definitions
• § 23 — Court of the United States defined
• § 231 — Civil disorders
• § 2311 — Definitions
• § 2312 — Transportation of stolen vehicles
• § 2313 — Sale or receipt of stolen vehicles
• § 2314 — Transportation of stolen goods, securities, moneys, fraudulent State tax stamps, or articles used in counterfeiting
• § 2315 — Sale or receipt of stolen goods, securities, moneys, or fraudulent State tax stamps
• § 2316 — Transportation of livestock
• § 2317 — Sale or receipt of livestock
• § 2318 — Trafficking in counterfeit labels, illicit labels, or counterfeit documentation or packaging
• § 2319 — Criminal infringement of a copyright
• § 2319A — Unauthorized fixation of and trafficking in sound recordings and music videos of live musical performances
• § 2319B — Unauthorized recording of Motion pictures in a Motion picture exhibition facility
• § 2319C — Illicit digital transmission services
• § 232 — Definitions
• § 2320 — Trafficking in counterfeit goods or services
• § 2321 — Trafficking in certain motor vehicles or motor vehicle parts
• § 2322 — Chop shops
• § 2323 — Forfeiture, destruction, and restitution
• § 2325 — Definition
• § 2326 — Enhanced penalties
• § 2327 — Mandatory restitution
• § 2328 — Mandatory forfeiture
• § 233 — Preemption
• § 2331 — Definitions
• § 2332 — Criminal penalties
• § 2332a — Use of weapons of mass destruction
• § 2332b — Acts of terrorism transcending national boundaries
• § 2332c — Repealed. Pub. L. 105–277, div. I, title II, § 201(c)(1) , Oct. 21, 1998 , 112 Stat. 2681–871 ]
• § 2332d — Financial transactions
• § 2332e — Requests for military assistance to enforce prohibition in certain emergencies
• § 2332f — Bombings of places of public use, government facilities, public transportation systems and infrastructure facilities
• § 2332g — Missile systems designed to destroy aircraft
• § 2332h — Radiological dispersal devices
• § 2332i — Acts of nuclear terrorism
• § 2333 — Civil remedies
• § 2334 — Jurisdiction and venue
• § 2335 — Limitation of actions
• § 2336 — Other limitations
• § 2337 — Suits against Government officials
• § 2338 — Exclusive Federal jurisdiction
• § 2339 — Harboring or concealing terrorists
• § 2339A — Providing material support to terrorists
• § 2339B — Providing material support or resources to designated foreign terrorist organizations
• § 2339C — Prohibitions against the financing of terrorism
• § 2339D — Receiving military-type training from a foreign terrorist organization
• § 2340 — Definitions
• § 2340A — Torture
• § 2340B — Exclusive remedies
• § 2341 — Definitions
• § 2342 — Unlawful acts
• § 2343 — Recordkeeping, reporting, and inspection
• § 2344 — Penalties
• § 2345 — Effect on State and local law
• § 2346 — Enforcement and regulations
• § 2381 — Treason
• § 2382 — Misprision of treason
• § 2383 — Rebellion or insurrection
• § 2384 — Seditious conspiracy
• § 2385 — Advocating overthrow of Government
• § 2386 — Registration of certain organizations
• § 2387 — Activities affecting armed forces generally
• § 2388 — Activities affecting armed forces during war
• § 2389 — Recruiting for service against United States
• § 2390 — Enlistment to serve against United States
• § 2391 — Repealed. Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330004(13) , Sept. 13, 1994 , 108 Stat. 2142 ]
• § 24 — Definitions relating to Federal health care offense
• § 241 — Conspiracy against rights
• § 242 — Deprivation of rights under color of law
• § 2421 — Transportation generally
• § 2421A — Promotion or facilitation of prostitution and reckless disregard of sex trafficking
• § 2422 — Coercion and enticement