Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Part I · Chapter 113 — Stolen Property
§ 2317. Sale or receipt of livestock
Statutory text
Whoever receives, conceals, stores, barters, buys, sells, or disposes of any livestock, moving in or constituting a part of interstate or foreign commerce, knowing the same to have been stolen, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five 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.
Pub. L. 80–645 · 62 Stat. 683
Enacted · 18 U.S.C. § 2317
June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 807
Source evidence
Code source credit
June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 807Livestock Fraud Protection Act
Pub. L. 98–473 title II § 1114 · 98 Stat. 1837
Substituted · 18 U.S.C. § 2317
Pub. L. 98–473 substituted “livestock” for “cattle” in section catchline and text
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 98–473 substituted “livestock” for “cattle” in section catchline and text.Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 1114. Section 2317 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking “cattle” each place it appears in the section heading and in the text and inserting in lieu thereof in such instance “livestock”.Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994
Pub. L. 103–322 title XXXIII § 330016(1)(K) · 108 Stat. 1796
Substituted · 18 U.S.C. § 2317
Pub. L. 103–322 substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $5,000”
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 103–322 substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $5,000”.Enacted provision · exact public law section
(K) in sections 35, 81, 112, 152, 153, 155, 212, 213, 214, 285, 334, 351, 435, 436, 438, 471, 472, 473, 476, 477, 478, 481, 485, 487, 488, 497, 498, 505, 506, 508, 509, 541, 542, 543, 544, 546, 547, 548, 549, 550, 551, 552, 592, 593, 602, 603, 606, 607, 642, 655, 658, 659, 660, 661, 663, 751, 799, 844, 872, 874, 875, 876, 877, 878, 914, 915, 924, 953, 954, 956, 1004, 1010, 1011, 1015, 1017, 1025, 1028, 1071, 1073, 1074, 1163, 1169, 1231, 1265, 1363, 1421, 1422, 1423, 1424, 1425, 1426, 1427, 1428, 1429, 1461, 1462, 1463, 1465, 1503, 1505, 1506, 1507, 1510, 1581, 1582, 1583, 1584, 1585, 1588, 1658, 1659, 1717, 1732, 1735, 1737, 1751, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1915, 1991, 2072, 2073, 2113, 2217, 2152, 2197, 2231, 2244, 2314, 2316, 2317, 2344, and 2701 by striking “not more than $5,000” each place it appears and inserting “under this title”;
2 of 3 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Notes
Historical and Revision Notes
Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., §§ 419c, 419d (Aug. 18, 1941, ch. 366, §§ 4, 5, 55 Stat. 632).
Definitions of “cattle” and “interstate or foreign commerce”, contained in section 419a of title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., are incorporated in sections 10 and 2311 of this title.
Venue provision of said section 419d of title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., was omitted as completely covered by section 3237 of this title.
Minor changes were made in phraseology.
Editorial Notes
Amendments1984–1994 · 2 rounds
1994
Pub. L. 103–322 substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $5,000”.
1984
Pub. L. 98–473 substituted “livestock” for “cattle” in section catchline and text.
Credits
1948–1994 · 3 acts
- 1948June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 807
- 1984Pub. L. 98–473, title II, § 1114, , 98 Stat. 2149
- 1994Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(K), , 108 Stat. 2147.
Show as published
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 807; Pub. L. 98–473, title II, § 1114, , 98 Stat. 2149; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(K), , 108 Stat. 2147.)