Skip to content

Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure

Part II · Chapter 203 — Arrest and Commitment

§ 3042. Extraterritorial jurisdiction

Statutory text

Section 3041 of this title shall apply in any country where the United States exercises extraterritorial jurisdiction for the arrest and removal therefrom to the United States of any citizen or national of the United States who is a fugitive from justice charged with or convicted of the commission of any offense against the United States, and shall also apply throughout the United States for the arrest and removal therefrom to the jurisdiction of any officer or representative of the United States vested with judicial authority in any country in which the United States exercises extraterritorial jurisdiction, of any citizen or national of the United States who is a fugitive from justice charged with or convicted of the commission of any offense against the United States in any country where it exercises extraterritorial jurisdiction.

Such fugitive first mentioned may, by any officer or representative of the United States vested with judicial authority in any country in which the United States exercises extraterritorial jurisdiction and agreeably to the usual mode of process against offenders subject to such jurisdiction, be arrested and detained or conditionally released pursuant to section 3142 of this title, as the case may be, pending the issuance of a warrant for his removal, which warrant the principal officer or representative of the United States vested with judicial authority in the country where the fugitive shall be found shall seasonably issue, and the United States marshal or corresponding officer shall execute.

Such marshal or other officer, or the deputies of such marshal or officer, when engaged in executing such warrant without the jurisdiction of the court to which they are attached, shall have all the powers of a marshal of the United States so far as such powers are requisite for the prisoner’s safekeeping and the execution of the warrant.

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. § 3042

    June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 815

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 815

  2. Bail Reform Act of 1984

    Pub. L. 98–473 title II § 204(b) · 98 Stat. 1837

    Substituted · 18 U.S.C. § 3042

    Pub. L. 98–473 substituted “detained or conditionally released pursuant to section 3142 of this title” for “imprisoned or admitted to bail”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 98–473 substituted “detained or conditionally released pursuant to section 3142 of this title” for “imprisoned or admitted to bail”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (b) The second paragraph of section 3042 is amended by striking out “imprisoned or admitted to bail” and inserting in lieu thereof “detained or conditionally released pursuant to section 3142 of 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., § 662b (Mar. 22, 1934, ch. 73, § 1, 48 Stat. 454).

Words “crime or” before “offense” were omitted as unnecessary.

Words “and the Philippine Islands” were deleted in two places as obsolete in view of the independence of the Commonwealth of the Philippines effective .

Words “its Territories, Districts, or possessions, including the Panama Canal Zone or any other territory governed, occupied, or controlled by it” were omitted as covered by section 5 of this title defining the term “United States”.

Minor changes were made in phraseology.

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1984—Pub. L. 98–473 substituted “detained or conditionally released pursuant to section 3142 of this title” for “imprisoned or admitted to bail”.

Credits

1948–1984 · 2 acts
  1. 1948June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 815
  2. 1984Pub. L. 98–473, title II, § 204(b), , 98 Stat. 1985.
Show as published

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 815; Pub. L. 98–473, title II, § 204(b), , 98 Stat. 1985.)

Parsed from the official OLRC USLM XML in data/usc_all/usc18.xml · release point 119-108 · OLRC build 2026-05-04

USLM identifier /us/usc/t18/s3042