Laws: Cases and Codes : U.S. Code : Title 18 : Section 2261A


   
U.S. Code as of: 01/19/04
Section 2261A. Interstate stalking

      Whoever - 
        (1) travels in interstate or foreign commerce or within the
      special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United
      States, or enters or leaves Indian country, with the intent to
      kill, injure, harass, or intimidate another person, and in the
      course of, or as a result of, such travel places that person in
      reasonable fear of the death of, or serious bodily injury to,
      that person, a member of the immediate family (as defined in
      section 115) of that person, or the spouse or intimate partner of
      that person; or
        (2) with the intent - 
          (A) to kill or injure a person in another State or tribal
        jurisdiction or within the special maritime and territorial
        jurisdiction of the United States; or
          (B) to place a person in another State or tribal
        jurisdiction, or within the special maritime and territorial
        jurisdiction of the United States, in reasonable fear of the
        death of, or serious bodily injury to - 
            (i) that person;
            (ii) a member of the immediate family (as defined in
          section 115) of that person; or
            (iii) a spouse or intimate partner of that person,

      uses the mail or any facility of interstate or foreign commerce
      to engage in a course of conduct that places that person in
      reasonable fear of the death of, or serious bodily injury to, any
      of the persons described in clauses (i) through (iii),

    shall be punished as provided in section 2261(b).



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