Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Part I · Chapter 91 — Public Lands
§ 1851. Coal depredations
Statutory text
Whoever mines or removes coal of any character, whether anthracite, bituminous, or lignite, from beds or deposits in lands of, or reserved to the United States, with intent wrongfully to appropriate, sell, or dispose of the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
This section shall not interfere with any right or privilege conferred by existing laws of the United States.
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. 80–645 · 62 Stat. 683
Enacted · 18 U.S.C. § 1851
June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 787
Source evidence
Code source credit
June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 787Economic Espionage Act of 1996
Pub. L. 104–294 title VI § 601(a)(8) · 110 Stat. 3488
Substituted · 18 U.S.C. § 1851
Pub. L. 104–294 substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $1,000” in first par
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 104–294 substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $1,000” in first par.Enacted provision · exact public law section
(8) Sections 1821, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854, 1905, 1916, 1918, 1991, 2115, 2116, 2191, 2192, 2194, 2199, 2234, 2235, and 2236 of title 18, United States Code, are each amended by striking “fined not more than $1,000” each place it appears and inserting “fined under this title”.
1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Notes
Historical and Revision Notes
Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., §§ 103a, 103b (July 3, 1926, ch. 780, §§ 1, 2, 44 Stat. 891).
Section consolidates sections 103a and 103b of title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed.
Words “deemed guilty of misdemeanor” were deleted as unnecessary in view of definitive section 1 of this title. (See also reviser’s note under section 212 of this title.)
Minor changes were made in phraseology.
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1996—Pub. L. 104–294 substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $1,000” in first par.
Credits
1948–1996 · 2 acts
- 1948June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 787
- 1996Pub. L. 104–294, title VI, § 601(a)(8), , 110 Stat. 3498.
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(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 787; Pub. L. 104–294, title VI, § 601(a)(8), , 110 Stat. 3498.)