Volume 54
Public Law 76–101
To amend the Judicial Code with respect to the continuation of grand juries to finish investigations.
Approved April 17, 1940
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Judicial Code with respect to the continuation of grand juries to finish investigations.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, of America in Congress assembled,
That
Judicial Code, amendment.
Continuation of grand juries to finish investigations.
the fifth sentence of section 284 of the Judicial Code as amended (U. S. C., title 28, sec. 421), be, and it is hereby, amended to read as follows:
“A district judge may, upon request of the district attorney or of the grand jury or on his own motion, by order authorize any grand jury to continue to sit during the term succeeding the term at which such request is made, solely to finish investigations begun but not finished by such grand jury, but no grand jury shall be permitted to sit in all during more than eighteen months:
Provided
, That, for good cause shown, the court may, at any time after the end of the term for which the grand jury was originally summoned, excuse any member of the grand jury and summon and impanel another person in his place.”
Approved, April 17, 1940.