Laws: Cases and Codes : U.S. Code : Title 18 : Section 32


   

U.S. Code as of: 01/19/04
Section 32 - Notes
                                   SOURCE
    (Added July 14, 1956, ch. 595, Sec. 1, 70 Stat. 539; amended Pub.
    L. 98-473, title II, Sec. 2013(b), Oct. 12. 1984, 98 Stat. 2187;
    Pub. L. 100-690, title VII, Sec. 7016, Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat.
    4395; Pub. L. 103-322, title XXXIII, Sec. 330016(1)(O), (S), Sept.
    13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2148; Pub. L. 104-132, title VII, Secs. 721(b),
    723(a)(1), Apr. 24, 1996, 110 Stat. 1298, 1300.)
                            REFERENCES IN TEXT                        
      Section 101(a)(22) of the Immigration and Nationality Act,
    referred to in subsec. (b), is classified to section 1101(a)(22) of
    Title 8, Aliens and Nationality.
                                AMENDMENTS                            
      1996 - Subsec. (a)(7). Pub. L. 104-132, Sec. 723(a)(1), inserted
    "or conspires" after "attempts".
      Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 104-132, Sec. 721(b), in closing provisions,
    struck out ", if the offender is later found in the United States,"
    before "be fined under this title" and inserted at end "There is
    jurisdiction over an offense under this subsection if a national of
    the United States was on board, or would have been on board, the
    aircraft; an offender is a national of the United States; or an
    offender is afterwards found in the United States. For purposes of
    this subsection, the term 'national of the United States' has the
    meaning prescribed in section 101(a)(22) of the Immigration and
    Nationality Act."
      Subsec. (b)(4). Pub. L. 104-132, Sec. 723(a)(1), inserted "or
    conspires" after "attempts".
      1994 - Subsecs. (a), (b). Pub. L. 103-322, Sec. 330016(1)(S),
    substituted "fined under this title" for "fined not more than
    $100,000" in concluding provisions.
      Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 103-322, Sec. 330016(1)(O), substituted
    "fined under this title" for "fined not more than $25,000".
      1988 - Subsec. (a)(3). Pub. L. 100-690 substituted "interfering"
    for "intefering".
      1984 - Pub. L. 98-473 amended section generally. Prior to
    amendment section read as follows:
      "Whoever willfully sets fire to, damages, destroys, disables, or
    wrecks any civil aircraft used, operated, or employed in
    interstate, overseas, or foreign air commerce; or
      "Whoever willfully sets fire to, damages, destroys, disables, or
    wrecks any aircraft engine, propeller, appliance, or spare part
    with intent to damage, destroy, disable, or wreck any such
    aircraft; or
      "Whoever, with like intent, willfully places or causes to be
    placed any destructive substance in, upon, or in proximity to any
    such aircraft, or any aircraft engine, propeller, appliance, spare
    part, fuel, lubricant, hydraulic fluid, or other material used or
    intended to be used in connection with the operation of any such
    aircraft, or any cargo carried or intended to be carried on any
    such aircraft, or otherwise makes or causes to be made any such
    aircraft, aircraft engine, propeller, appliance, spare part, fuel,
    lubricant, hydraulic fluid, or other material unworkable or
    unusable or hazardous to work or use; or
      "Whoever, with like intent, willfully sets fire to, damages,
    destroys, disables, or wrecks, or places or causes to be placed any
    destructive substance in, upon, or in proximity to any shop,
    supply, structure, station, depot, terminal, hangar, ramp, landing
    area, air-navigation facility or other facility, warehouse,
    property, machine, or apparatus used or intended to be used in
    connection with the operation, loading, or unloading of any such
    aircraft or making any such aircraft ready for flight, or otherwise
    makes or causes to be made any such shop, supply, structure,
    station, depot, terminal, hangar, ramp, landing area,
    air-navigation facility or other facility, warehouse, property,
    machine, or apparatus unworkable or unusable or hazardous to work
    or use; or
      "Whoever, with like intent, willfully incapacitates any member of
    the crew of any such aircraft; or
      "Whoever willfully attempts to do any of the aforesaid acts or
    things - 
      "shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than
      twenty years, or both."
                   SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS               
      This section is referred to in sections 1956, 2332b, 2339, 2339A,
    2516, 3592, 5032 of this title; title 49 section 44936.

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