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.

• § 3681 — Order of special forfeiture
• § 3682 — Notice to victims of order of special forfeiture
• § 3691 — Jury trial of criminal contempts
• § 3692 — Jury trial for contempt in labor dispute cases
• § 3693 — Summary disposition or jury trial; notice—(Rule)
• § 37 — Violence at international airports
• § 371 — Conspiracy to commit offense or to defraud United States
• § 372 — Conspiracy to impede or injure officer
• § 373 — Solicitation to commit a crime of violence
• § 3731 — Appeal by United States
• § 3732 — Taking of appeal; notice; time—(Rule)
• § 3733 — Assignment of errors—(Rule)
• § 3734 — Bill of exceptions abolished—(Rule)
• § 3735 — Bail on appeal or certiorari—(Rule)
• § 3736 — Certiorari—(Rule)
• § 3737 — Record—(Rule)
• § 3738 — Docketing appeal and record—(Rule)
• § 3739 — Supervision—(Rule)
• § 3740 — Argument—(Rule)
• § 3741 — Harmless error and plain error—(Rule)
• § 3742 — Review of a sentence
• § 3771 — Crime victims’ rights
• § 3771A — Motion to vacate; expungement; mitigating factors
• § 3772 — Sexual assault survivors’ rights
• § 38 — Fraud involving aircraft or space vehicle parts in interstate or foreign commerce
• § 39 — Traffic signal preemption transmitters
• § 39A — Aiming a laser pointer at an aircraft
• § 39B — Unsafe operation of unmanned aircraft
• § 4 — Misprision of felony
• § 40 — Commercial motor vehicles required to stop for inspections
• § 4001 — Limitation on detention; control of prisons
• § 4002 — Federal prisoners in State institutions; employment
• § 4003 — Federal institutions in States without appropriate facilities
• § 4004 — Oaths and acknowledgments
• § 4005 — Medical relief; expenses
• § 4006 — Subsistence for prisoners
• § 4007 — Expenses of prisoners
• § 4008 — Transportation expenses
• § 4009 — Appropriations for sites and buildings
• § 401 — Power of court
• § 4010 — Acquisition of additional land
• § 4011 — Disposition of cash collections for meals, laundry, etc.
• § 4012 — Summary seizure and forfeiture of prison contraband
• § 4013 — Support of United States prisoners in non-Federal institutions
• § 4014 — Testing for human immunodeficiency virus
• § 402 — Contempts constituting crimes
• § 403 — Protection of the privacy of child victims and child witnesses
• § 4041 — Bureau of Prisons; director and employees
• § 4042 — Duties of Bureau of Prisons
• § 4043 — Acceptance of gifts and bequests to the Commissary Funds, Federal Prisons
• § 4044 — Donations on behalf of the Bureau of Prisons
• § 4045 — Authority to conduct autopsies
• § 4046 — Shock incarceration program
• § 4047 — Prison impact assessments
• § 4048 — Fees for health care services for prisoners
• § 4049 — Officers and employees of the Bureau of Prisons authorized to carry oleoresin capsicum spray
• § 4050 — Secure firearms storage
• § 4051 — Treatment of primary caretaker parents and other individuals
• § 4081 — Classification and treatment of prisoners
• § 4082 — Commitment to Attorney General; residential treatment centers; extension of limits of confinement; work furlough
• § 4083 — Penitentiary imprisonment; consent
• § 4084, 4085 — Repealed. Pub. L. 98–473, title II, § 218(a)(3) , Oct. 12, 1984 , 98 Stat. 2027 ]
• § 4086 — Temporary safe-keeping of federal offenders by marshals
• § 40A — Operation of unauthorized unmanned aircraft over wildfires
• § 41 — Hunting, fishing, trapping; disturbance or injury on wildlife refuges
• § 4100 — Scope and limitation of chapter
• § 4101 — Definitions
• § 4102 — Authority of the Attorney General
• § 4103 — Applicability of United States laws
• § 4104 — Transfer of offenders on probation
• § 4105 — Transfer of offenders serving sentence of imprisonment
• § 4106 — Transfer of offenders on parole; parole of offenders transferred
• § 4106A — Transfer of offenders on parole; parole of offenders transferred
• § 4107 — Verification of consent of offender to transfer from the United States
• § 4108 — Verification of consent of offender to transfer to the United States
• § 4109 — Right to counsel, appointment of counsel
• § 4110 — Transfer of juveniles
• § 4111 — Prosecution barred by foreign conviction
• § 4112 — Loss of rights, disqualification
• § 4113 — Status of alien offender transferred to a foreign country
• § 4114 — Return of transferred offenders
• § 4115 — Execution of sentences imposing an obligation to make restitution or reparations
• § 4121 — Federal Prison Industries; board of directors
• § 4122 — Administration of Federal Prison Industries
• § 4123 — New industries
• § 4124 — Purchase of prison-made products by Federal departments
• § 4125 — Public works; prison camps
• § 4126 — Prison Industries Fund; use and settlement of accounts
• § 4127 — Prison Industries report to Congress
• § 4128 — Enforcement by Attorney General
• § 4129 — Authority to borrow and invest
• § 4130 — Additional markets
• § 4161 to 4166 — Repealed. Pub. L. 98–473, title II, § 218(a)(4) , Oct. 12, 1984 , 98 Stat. 2027 ]
• § 42 — Importation or shipment of injurious mammals, birds, fish (including mollusks and crustacea), amphibia, and reptiles; permits, specimens for museums; regulations
• § 4201 to 4218 — Repealed. Pub. L. 98–473, title II, § 218(a)(5) , Oct. 12, 1984 , 98 Stat. 2027 ]
• § 4241 — Determination of mental competency to stand trial to undergo postrelease proceedings 1 1 So in original. Probably should be “stand trial or to undergo postrelease proceedings”.
• § 4242 — Determination of the existence of insanity at the time of the offense
• § 4243 — Hospitalization of a person found not guilty only by reason of insanity
• § 4244 — Hospitalization of a convicted person suffering from mental disease or defect
• § 4245 — Hospitalization of an imprisoned person suffering from mental disease or defect
• § 4246 — Hospitalization of a person due for release but suffering from mental disease or defect
• § 4247 — General provisions for chapter
• § 4248 — Civil commitment of a sexually dangerous person
• § 4251 to 4255 — Repealed. Pub. L. 98–473, title II, § 218(a)(6) , Oct. 12, 1984 , 98 Stat. 2027 ]
• § 4281 — Repealed. Pub. L. 98–473, title II, § 218(a)(7) , Oct. 12, 1984 , 98 Stat. 2027 ]
• § 4282 — Arrested but unconvicted persons
• § 4283, 4284 — Repealed. Pub. L. 98–473, title II, § 218(a)(7) , Oct. 12, 1984 , 98 Stat. 2027 ]
• § 4285 — Persons released pending further judicial proceedings
• § 43 — Force, violence, and threats involving animal enterprises
• § 431 — Contracts by Member of Congress
• § 432 — Officer or employee contracting with Member of Congress
• § 4321 — Board of Advisers
• § 4322 — Use of restraints on prisoners during the period of pregnancy, labor, and postpartum recovery prohibited
• § 433 — Exemptions with respect to certain contracts
• § 434 — Repealed. Pub. L. 87–849, § 2 , Oct. 23, 1962 , 76 Stat. 1126 ]
• § 435 — Contracts in excess of specific appropriation
• § 4351 — Establishment; Advisory Board; appointment of members; compensation; officers; committees; delegation of powers; Director, appointment and powers 1 1 Section catchline editorially supplied.
• § 4352 — Authority of Institute; time; records of recipients; access; scope of section 1 1 Section catchline editorially supplied.
• § 4353 — Repealed. Pub. L. 107–273, div. A, title III, § 301(a) , Nov. 2, 2002 , 116 Stat. 1780 ]
• § 436 — Convict labor contracts
• § 437 — Repealed. Pub. L. 104–178, § 1(a) , Aug. 6, 1996 , 110 Stat. 1565 ]
• § 438, 439 — Repealed. Pub. L. 106–568, title VIII, § 812(c)(2) , Dec. 27, 2000 , 114 Stat. 2917 ]
• § 44 — Repealed. Pub. L. 97–79, § 9(b)(2) , Nov. 16, 1981 , 95 Stat. 1079 ]
• § 440 — Mail contracts
• § 441 — Postal supply contracts
• § 442 — Government Publishing Office
• § 443 — War contracts
• § 45 — Repealed. Pub. L. 101–647, title XII, § 1206(a) , Nov. 29, 1990 , 104 Stat. 4832 ]
• § 46 — Repealed. Pub. L. 116–260, div. O, title X, § 1002(1) , Dec. 27, 2020 , 134 Stat. 2155 ]
• § 47 — Use of aircraft or motor vehicles to hunt certain wild horses or burros; pollution of watering holes
• § 470 — Counterfeit acts committed outside the United States
• § 471 — Obligations or securities of United States
• § 472 — Uttering counterfeit obligations or securities
• § 473 — Dealing in counterfeit obligations or securities
• § 474 — Plates, stones, or analog, digital, or electronic images for counterfeiting obligations or securities
• § 474A — Deterrents to counterfeiting of obligations and securities
• § 475 — Imitating obligations or securities; advertisements
• § 476 — Taking impressions of tools used for obligations or securities
• § 477 — Possessing or selling impressions of tools used for obligations or securities
• § 478 — Foreign obligations or securities
• § 479 — Uttering counterfeit foreign obligations or securities
• § 48 — Animal crushing
• § 480 — Possessing counterfeit foreign obligations or securities
• § 481 — Plates, stones, or analog, digital, or electronic images for counterfeiting foreign obligations or securities
• § 482 — Foreign bank notes
• § 483 — Uttering counterfeit foreign bank notes
• § 484 — Connecting parts of different notes
• § 485 — Coins or bars
• § 486 — Uttering coins of gold, silver or other metal
• § 487 — Making or possessing counterfeit dies for coins
• § 488 — Making or possessing counterfeit dies for foreign coins
• § 489 — Making or possessing likeness of coins
• § 49 — Enforcement of animal fighting prohibitions
• § 490 — Minor coins
• § 491 — Tokens or paper used as money
• § 492 — Forfeiture of counterfeit paraphernalia
• § 493 — Bonds and obligations of certain lending agencies
• § 494 — Contractors’ bonds, bids, and public records
• § 495 — Contracts, deeds, and powers of attorney
• § 496 — Customs matters
• § 497 — Letters patent
• § 498 — Military or naval discharge certificates
• § 499 — Military, naval, or official passes
• § 5 — United States defined
• § 500 — Money orders
• § 5001 — Surrender to State authorities; expenses
• § 5002 — Repealed. Pub. L. 104–134, title I, § 101[(a)] [title VI, § 614(a)(1)], Apr. 26, 1996 , 110 Stat. 1321 , 1321–65; renumbered title I, Pub. L. 104–140, § 1(a) , May 2, 1996 , 110 Stat. 1327 ]
• § 5003 — Custody of State offenders
• § 5005, 5006 — Repealed. Pub. L. 98–473, title II, § 218(a)(8) , Oct. 12, 1984 , 98 Stat. 2027 ]
• § 5007 to 5009 — Repealed. Pub. L. 94–233, § 5 , Mar. 15, 1976 , 90 Stat. 231 ]
• § 501 — Postage stamps, postage meter stamps, and postal cards
• § 5010 to 5026 — Repealed. Pub. L. 98–473, title II, § 218(a)(8) , Oct. 12, 1984 , 98 Stat. 2027 ]
• § 502 — Postage and revenue stamps of foreign governments
• § 503 — Postmarking stamps
• § 5031 — Definitions
• § 5032 — Delinquency proceedings in district courts; transfer for criminal prosecution
• § 5033 — Custody prior to appearance before magistrate judge
• § 5034 — Duties of magistrate judge
• § 5035 — Detention prior to disposition
• § 5036 — Speedy trial
• § 5037 — Dispositional hearing
• § 5038 — Use of juvenile records
• § 5039 — Commitment
• § 504 — Printing and filming of United States and foreign obligations and securities
• § 5040 — Support
• § 5041 — Repealed. Pub. L. 98–473, title II, § 214(b) , Oct. 12, 1984 , 98 Stat. 2014 ]
• § 5042 — Revocation of probation
• § 5043 — Juvenile solitary confinement
• § 505 — Seals of courts; signatures of judges or court officers
• § 506 — Seals of departments or agencies
• § 507 — Ship’s papers
• § 508 — Transportation requests of Government
• § 509 — Possessing and making plates or stones for Government transportation requests
• § 510 — Forging endorsements on Treasury checks or bonds or securities of the United States
• § 511 — Altering or removing motor vehicle identification numbers
• § 511A — Repealed. Pub. L. 116–260, div. O, title X, § 1002(2) , Dec. 27, 2020 , 134 Stat. 2155 ]
• § 512 — Forfeiture of certain motor vehicles and motor vehicle parts
• § 513 — Securities of the States and private entities
• § 514 — Fictitious obligations
• § 521 — Criminal street gangs