§ 33. Jurisdiction and venue of actions and offenses

Footnotes

1. 1 See Abolition of Writs of Error note below.

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. 1888

   Pub. L. 50–17 § 13 · 25 Stat. 41

   Enacted · 47 U.S.C. § 33

   (Feb. 29, 1888, ch. 17, § 13, 25 Stat. 42.)

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   (Feb. 29, 1888, ch. 17, § 13, 25 Stat. 42.)

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 13. That the district courts of the United States shall have Jurisdiction. jurisdiction over all offenses against this act and of all suits of a civil nature arising thereunder, whether the infraction complained FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Chs. 17– 20. 1888. of shall have been committed within the territorial waters of the United States or outside of the said waters: Provided, That in case Proviso. Offenses on high seas. such infraction is committed outside of the territorial waters of the United States the vessel on board of which it has been committed is a vessel of the United States From the decrees and judgments of the district courts in actions and suits arising under this act appeals and writs of error shall be allowed as now provided by law in other cases. Criminal actions and proceedings for a violation of the Criminal proceedings provisions of this act shall be commenced and prosecuted in the district court for the district within which the offense was committed, and when not committed within any judicial district, then in the district court for the district within which the offender may be found; and suits of a civil nature may be commenced in the district court for any district within which the defendant may be found and shall be served with process.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision