§ 372. Conspiracy to impede or injure officer

Statutory text

If two or more persons in any State, Territory, Possession, or District conspire to prevent, by force, intimidation, or threat, any person from accepting or holding any office, trust, or place of confidence under the United States, or from discharging any duties thereof, or to induce by like means any officer of the United States to leave the place, where his duties as an officer are required to be performed, or to injure him in his person or property on account of his lawful discharge of the duties of his office, or while engaged in the lawful discharge thereof, or to injure his property so as to molest, interrupt, hinder, or impede him in the discharge of his official duties, each of such persons shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six 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.

1948
Pub. L. 80–645 · 62 Stat. 683
Enacted · 18 U.S.C. § 372
June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 701
Source evidence
Code source credit
June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 701
2002
Criminal Law Technical Amendments Act of 2002
Pub. L. 107–273 div. B title IV § 4002(d)(1)(D) · 116 Stat. 1758
Substituted · 18 U.S.C. § 372
Pub. L. 107–273 substituted “under this title” for “not more than $5,000”
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 107–273 substituted “under this title” for “not more than $5,000”.
Enacted provision · exact public law section
(D) In section 372 and 752.— Sections 372 and 752(a) of title 18, United States Code, are each amended by striking “not more than $5,000” and inserting “under 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., § 54 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, § 21, 35 Stat. 1092).

Scope of section was enlarged to cover all possessions of the United States. When the section was first enacted in 1861 there were no possessions, and hence the use of the words “State or Territory” was sufficient to describe the area then subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. The word “District” was inserted by the codifiers of the 1909 Criminal Code.

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2002—Pub. L. 107–273 substituted “under this title” for “not more than $5,000”.

Credits

1948–2002 · 2 acts

1948June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 701
2002Pub. L. 107–273, div. B, title IV, § 4002(d)(1)(D), Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1809.

Show as published

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 701; Pub. L. 107–273, div. B, title IV, § 4002(d)(1)(D), Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1809.)