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TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 103 > § 2111
NOTES:
Source
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 796; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXII, § 320903(a)(1), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2124.)
Historical and Revision Notes
Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 463 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, § 284, 35 Stat. 1144).
Words “within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States” were added to restrict the place of the offense to those places described in section
451 of title
18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., now section
7 of this title.
Minor changes were made in phraseology.
Amendments
1994—Pub. L. 103–322 inserted “or attempts to take” after “takes”.
Short Title of 1996 Amendment
Pub. L. 104–217, § 1, Oct. 1, 1996, 110 Stat. 3020, provided that: “This Act [amending section
2119 of this title] may be cited as the ‘Carjacking Correction Act of 1996’.”
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