Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 11 — Regulation of Landing, Curing, and Sale of Sponges Taken from Gulf of Mexico and Straits of Florida
§ 784. Jurisdiction of prosecutions
Statutory text
Any violation of the provisions of this chapter shall be prosecuted in the district court of the United States of the district wherein the offender is found or into which he is first brought.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 63–253 § 4 · 38 Stat. 692
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 784
(Aug. 15, 1914, ch. 253, § 4, 38 Stat. 692.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Aug. 15, 1914, ch. 253, § 4, 38 Stat. 692.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 4. That any violation of this Act shall be prosecuted in the district court of the United States of the district wherein the offender is found or into which he is first brought.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Credits
(Aug. 15, 1914, ch. 253, § 4, 38 Stat. 692.)