Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Part II · Chapter 205 — Searches and Seizures
§ 3109. Breaking doors or windows for entry or exit
Statutory text
The officer may break open any outer or inner door or window of a house, or any part of a house, or anything therein, to execute a search warrant, if, after notice of his authority and purpose, he is refused admittance or when necessary to liberate himself or a person aiding him in 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.
Pub. L. 80–645 · 62 Stat. 683
Enacted · 18 U.S.C. § 3109
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 820.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 820.)
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Notes
Historical and Revision Notes
Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., §§ 618, 619 (June 15, 1917, ch. 30, title XI, §§ 8, 9, 40 Stat. 229).
Said sections 618 and 619 were consolidated with minor changes in phraseology but without change of substance.
Credits
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 820.)