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Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure

Part II · Chapter 203 — Arrest and Commitment

§ 3058. Interned belligerent nationals

Statutory text

Whoever, belonging to the armed land or naval forces of a belligerent nation or belligerent faction and being interned in the United States, in accordance with the law of nations, leaves or attempts to leave said jurisdiction, or leaves or attempts to leave the limits of internment without permission from the proper official of the United States in charge, or willfully overstays a leave of absence granted by such official, shall be subject to arrest by any marshal or deputy marshal of the United States, or by the military or naval authorities thereof, and shall be returned to the place of internment and there confined and safely kept for such period of time as the official of the United States in charge shall direct.

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. § 3058

    June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 818

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 818

  2. Crime Control Act of 1990

    Pub. L. 101–647 title XXXV § 3571 · 104 Stat. 4789

    Substituted · 18 U.S.C. § 3058

    Pub. L. 101–647 substituted “belligerent” for “beligerent” before “nation”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 101–647 substituted “belligerent” for “beligerent” before “nation”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 3571. CORRECTION TO SECTION 3058. Section 3058 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking “beligerent” and inserting “belligerent”.

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., § 37 (June 15, 1917, ch. 30, title V, § 7, 40 Stat. 223).

Said section 37 was incorporated in this section and section 756 of this title.

Minor verbal changes were made.

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1990—Pub. L. 101–647 substituted “belligerent” for “beligerent” before “nation”.

Credits

1948–1990 · 2 acts
  1. 1948June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 818
  2. 1990Pub. L. 101–647, title XXXV, § 3571, , 104 Stat. 4928.
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(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 818; Pub. L. 101–647, title XXXV, § 3571, , 104 Stat. 4928.)

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