Laws: Cases and Codes : U.S. Code : Title 18 : Section 2261
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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 2261 - Notes
SOURCE
(Added Pub. L. 103-322, title IV, Sec. 40221(a), Sept. 13, 1994,
108 Stat. 1926; amended Pub. L. 104-201, div. A, title X, Sec.
1069(b)(1), (2), Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2656; Pub. L. 106-386,
div. B, title I, Sec. 1107(a), Oct. 28, 2000, 114 Stat. 1497.)
AMENDMENTS
2000 - Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 106-386 added subsec. (a) and struck
out heading and text of former subsec. (a). Text read as follows:
"(1) Crossing a state line. - A person who travels across a State
line or enters or leaves Indian country with the intent to injure,
harass, or intimidate that person's spouse or intimate partner, and
who, in the course of or as a result of such travel, intentionally
commits a crime of violence and thereby causes bodily injury to
such spouse or intimate partner, shall be punished as provided in
subsection (b).
"(2) Causing the crossing of a state line. - A person who causes
a spouse or intimate partner to cross a State line or to enter or
leave Indian country by force, coercion, duress, or fraud and, in
the course or as a result of that conduct, intentionally commits a
crime of violence and thereby causes bodily injury to the person's
spouse or intimate partner, shall be punished as provided in
subsection (b)."
1996 - Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 104-201 inserted "or section 2261A"
after "this section" in introductory provisions and substituted
"victim" for "offender's spouse or intimate partner" in pars. (1)
to (3).
SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS
This section is referred to in section 2261A of this title.
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