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Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure

Part I · Chapter 75 — Passports and Visas

§ 1545. Safe conduct violation

Statutory text

Whoever violates any safe conduct or passport duly obtained and issued under authority of the United States shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both.

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.

  1. Pub. L. 80–645 · 62 Stat. 683

    Enacted · 18 U.S.C. § 1545

    June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 771

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 771

  2. Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994

    Pub. L. 103–322 § 330016(1)(I) · 108 Stat. 1796

    Substituted · 18 U.S.C. § 1545

    Pub. L. 103–322, § 330016(1)(I), which directed the amendment of this section by substituting “under this title” for “not more than $2,000”, could not be executed because the words “not more than $2,000” did not appear in text subsequent to amendment by Pub. L. 103–322, § 130009(a)(3). See below

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 103–322, § 330016(1)(I), which directed the amendment of this section by substituting “under this title” for “not more than $2,000”, could not be executed because the words “not more than $2,000” did not appear in text subsequent to amendment by Pub. L. 103–322, § 130009(a)(3). See below.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (I) in sections 331, 482, 486, 499, 755, 873, 958, 1016, 1154, 1156, 1381, 1542, 1543, 1544, 1545, 1586, 1621, 1622, 1702, 1708, 1709, 1920, 1921, 1923, 2071, 2193, 2233, 2386, and 2424 by striking “not more than $2,000” each place it appears and inserting “under this title”;

  3. Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994

    Pub. L. 103–322 § 130009(a)(3) · 108 Stat. 1796

    Substituted · 18 U.S.C. § 1545

    Pub. L. 103–322, § 130009(a)(3), substituted “under this title, imprisoned not more than 10 years” for “not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than three years”

    Target inherited from the preceding amendment note.

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 103–322, § 130009(a)(3), substituted “under this title, imprisoned not more than 10 years” for “not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than three years”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (3) in section 1545 by striking “not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than three years” and inserting “under this title, imprisoned not more than 10 years”;

2 of 3 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Notes

Historical and Revision Notes

Based on section 251 of title 22, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Foreign Relations and Intercourse (R.S. 4062).

The punishment provision was rewritten to permit the alternative of a fine of not more than $2,000 or imprisonment, or both, instead of imprisonment and fine “at the discretion of the court”, to conform with other sections embracing offenses of comparable gravity.

Minor changes were made in phraseology.

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1994—Pub. L. 103–322, § 330016(1)(I), which directed the amendment of this section by substituting “under this title” for “not more than $2,000”, could not be executed because the words “not more than $2,000” did not appear in text subsequent to amendment by Pub. L. 103–322, § 130009(a)(3). See below.

Pub. L. 103–322, § 130009(a)(3), substituted “under this title, imprisoned not more than 10 years” for “not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than three years”.

Credits

1948–1994 · 2 acts
  1. 1948June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 771
  2. 1994Pub. L. 103–322, title XIII, § 130009(a)(3), title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(I), , 108 Stat. 2030, 2147.
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(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 771; Pub. L. 103–322, title XIII, § 130009(a)(3), title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(I), , 108 Stat. 2030, 2147.)

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