Volume 50
Public Law 75–747
To amend the bank-robbery statute to include burglary and larceny.
Approved August 24, 1937
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the bank-robbery statute to include burglary and larceny.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That subsection
Offenses against banks.
(a) of section 2 of the Act of May 18, 1934 (48 Stat 783; U. S. C., title 12, sec. 588b), be and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows:
“(a) Whoever, by force and violence, or by putting in fear, feloniously
Bank robbery: burglary and larceny added.
takes, or feloniously attempts to take, from the person or presence of another any property or money or any other thing of value belonging to, or in the care, custody, control, management, or possession of, any bank; or whoever shall enter or attempt to enter any bank, or any building used in whole or in part as a bank, with intent to commit in such bank or building, or part thereof, so used, any felony or larceny, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or
Penalty provisions.
imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both; or whoever shall take and carry away, with intent to steal or purloin, any property or money or any other thing of value exceeding $50 belonging to, or in the care, custody, control, management, or possession or any bank, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; or whoever shall take and carry away, with intent to steal or purloin, any property or money or any other thing of value not exceeding $50 belonging to, or in the care, custody, control, management, or possession of any bank, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.”
Approved, August 24, 1937.