Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Part I · Chapter 103 — Robbery and Burglary
§ 2111. Special maritime and territorial jurisdiction
Statutory text
Whoever, within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States, by force and violence, or by intimidation, takes or attempts to take from the person or presence of another anything of value, shall be imprisoned not more than fifteen years.
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. § 2111
June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 796
Source evidence
Code source credit
June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 796Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994
Pub. L. 103–322 title XXXII § 320903(a)(1) · 108 Stat. 1796
Inserted · 18 U.S.C. § 2111
Pub. L. 103–322 inserted “or attempts to take” after “takes”
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 103–322 inserted “or attempts to take” after “takes”.Enacted provision · exact public law section
(1) Section 2111 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting “or attempts to take” after “takes”.
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., § 463 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, § 284, 35 Stat. 1144).
Words “within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States” were added to restrict the place of the offense to those places described in section 451 of title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., now section 7 of this title.
Minor changes were made in phraseology.
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1994—Pub. L. 103–322 inserted “or attempts to take” after “takes”.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Short Title of 1996 Amendment
Pub. L. 104–217, § 1, , 110 Stat. 3020, provided that: “This Act [amending section 2119 of this title] may be cited as the ‘Carjacking Correction Act of 1996’.”
Credits
1948–1994 · 2 acts
- 1948June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 796
- 1994Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXII, § 320903(a)(1), , 108 Stat. 2124.
Show as published
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 796; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXII, § 320903(a)(1), , 108 Stat. 2124.)