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[CITE: 18USC2389]

 
                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                             PART I--CRIMES
 
        CHAPTER 115--TREASON, SEDITION, AND SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES
 
Sec. 2389. Recruiting for service against United States

    Whoever recruits soldiers or sailors within the United States, or in 
any place subject to the jurisdiction thereof, to engage in armed 
hostility against the same; or
    Whoever opens within the United States, or in any place subject to 
the jurisdiction thereof, a recruiting station for the enlistment of 
such soldiers or sailors to serve in any manner in armed hostility 
against the United States--
    Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five 
years, or both.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 811; Pub. L. 103-322, title XXXIII, 
Sec. 330016(1)(H), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 7 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, 
Sec. 7, 35 Stat. 1089).
    Mandatory punishment provision was rephrased in the alternative.
    Minor changes were made in phraseology.


                               Amendments

    1994--Pub. L. 103-322 substituted ``fined under this title'' for 
``fined not more than $1,000'' in last par.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 5 section 8312; title 38 
section 6105.