Volume 75 · 494
Public Law 87–221
To prohibit destruction of, or injury to, certain property moving in interstate or foreign commerce, and for other purposes.
Approved September 13, 1961
Statutory text
AN ACT
To prohibit destruction of, or injury to, certain property moving in interstate or foreign commerce, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That
it shall be unlawful for any person willfully to destroy or injure any property moving in interstate or foreign commerce in the possession of a common or contract carrier by railroad, motor vehicle, or aircraft, or willfully to attempt to destroy or injure any such property.
Whoever violates any provision of subsection (a) of this section shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.
To establish the interstate or foreign commerce character of any property involved in any prosecution under this section, the waybill or similar shipping document of such property shall be prima facie evidence of the place from which and to which such property was moving.
Sec. 2.
A judgment of conviction or acquittal on the merits under the laws of any State or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, shall be a bar to any prosecution under this Act for the same act or acts.
Approved September 13, 1961.