Laws: Cases and Codes : U.S. Code : Title 18 : Section 2262


   

U.S. Code as of: 01/19/04
Section 2262 - Notes
                                   SOURCE
    (Added Pub. L. 103-322, title IV, Sec. 40221(a), Sept. 13, 1994,
    108 Stat. 1927; amended Pub. L. 104-201, div. A, title X, Sec.
    1069(b)(2), Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2656; Pub. L. 104-294, title
    VI, Sec. 605(d), Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3509; Pub. L. 106-386,
    div. B, title I, Sec. 1107(c), Oct. 28, 2000, 114 Stat. 1498.)
                                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 engage
    in conduct that - 
        "(A)(i) violates the portion of a protection order that
      involves protection against credible threats of violence,
      repeated harassment, or bodily injury to the person or persons
      for whom the protection order was issued; or
        "(ii) would violate this subparagraph if the conduct occurred
      in the jurisdiction in which the order was issued; and
        "(B) subsequently engages in such conduct,
    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 an
    act that injures the person's spouse or intimate partner in
    violation of a valid protection order issued by a State shall be
    punished as provided in subsection (b)."
      1996 - Subsec. (a)(1)(A)(ii). Pub. L. 104-294 substituted
    "violate this subparagraph" for "violate subparagraph (A)".
      Subsec. (b)(1) to (3). Pub. L. 104-201 substituted "victim" for
    "offender's spouse or intimate partner".

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