1999 US Code
Title 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
PART I - CRIMES
CHAPTER 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 14 - Applicability to Canal Zone; definition

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§14. Applicability to Canal Zone; definition

(a) In addition to the sections of this title which by their terms apply to and within the Canal Zone, the following sections of this title, as amended from time to time, apply to and within the Canal Zone: 6, 8, 11, 201, 202, 203, 205, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 218, 287, 331, 371, 471, 472, 473, 474, 475, 476, 477, 478, 479, 480, 481, 482, 483, 484, 485, 486, 487, 488, 489, 490, 491, 492, 493, 494, 495, 496, 497, 498, 499, 505, 506, 507, 508, 509, 594, 595, 598, 600, 601, 604, 605, 703, 752, 755, 756, 792, 793, 794, 795, 796, 797, 798, 798A, 799, 915, 917, 951, 953, 954, 956, 957, 958, 959, 960, 961, 962, 963, 964, 965, 966, 967, 1001, 1017, 1024, 1073, 1301, 1364, 1381, 1382, 1542, 1543, 1544, 1546, 1584, 1621, 1622, 1761, 1821, 1991, 2151, 2152, 2153, 2154, 2155, 2156, 2157,1 2199, 2231, 2234, 2235, 2274, 2275, 2277, 2381, 2382, 2383, 2384, 2385, 2387, 2388, 2389, 2390, 2421, 2422, 2423, 2424, 3042, 3059, 3105, 3109, 3187, 3195, 3500.

(b) The term “Canal Zone”, as used in the sections of this title which by their terms apply to and within the Canal Zone, and as used in subsection (a) of this section, includes the area designated as the Canal Zone by sections 1 and 2 of Title 2, Canal Zone Code; and it also includes the corridor over which the United States of America exercises jurisdiction pursuant to the provisions of Article IX of the General Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation between the United States of America and the Republic of Panama, signed March 2, 1936, to the extent that the application, to the corridor, of the sections mentioned in this subsection, and of those specified in subsection (a) of this section, is consistent with the nature of the rights of the United States in the corridor as provided by treaty.

(c) The definitions of the terms prescribed by sections 5 and 10, or other sections of this title, are modified to effectuate the applicability of the sections enumerated by subsection (a) of this section to and within the Canal Zone.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 686; Aug. 5, 1953, ch. 325, 67 Stat. 366; Pub. L. 87–845, §3(a), Oct. 18, 1962, 76A Stat. 698; Pub. L. 90–357, §59, June 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 248; Pub. L. 101–647, title XXXV, §3519(c), Nov. 29, 1990, 104 Stat. 4923; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, §330010(9), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2143.)

Senate Revision Amendment

This amendment, adding a new section 14, together with amended section 5 will clarify the applicability of Federal criminal statutes within the Canal Zone. It was particularly desired by the Governor of the Canal Zone and the compiler of the Canal Zone Code. The Governor of the Canal Zone, in a letter dated September 22, 1945, and filed with the House Judiciary Committee, advised:

“General criminal laws of the United States are now applicable to the Canal Zone only if applicability is indicated by language expressly referring to the Canal Zone, or to possessions of the United States, or to territory subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, etc. * * * The bill in its present form would have undesirable effects insofar as concerns the continued operation of the Canal Zone Criminal Code and Code of Criminal Procedure, established by Congress as titles 5 and 6 of the Canal Zone Code, enacted by act of June 19, 1934 (ch. 667, 48 Stat. 1122), and also would perhaps have undesirable effects insofar as concerns the continued applicability to the Canal Zone of the body of general criminal laws which are now applicable.”

References in Text

Among the sections of this title, referred to in text, as being by their terms applicable to and within the Canal Zone are: section 1261 making Liquor Traffic provisions of sections 1261 to 1265 inapplicable to Canal Zone; section 3183, relating to extradition of fugitives from state, territory or possession into Canal Zone: sections 3241 relating to jurisdiction of offenses under certain sections: sections 3771 and 3772, relating to power of Supreme Court to prescribe rules of procedure in a criminal case to and including the verdict and after the verdict.

Section 2157 of this title, referred to in subsec. (a), was repealed by Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, §330004(13), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2142.

The Canal Zone Code, referred to in subsec. (b), was enacted by Pub. L. 87–845, §1, Oct. 18, 1962, 76A Stat. 1, redesignated the Panama Canal Code by Pub. L. 96–70, title III, §3303(b), Sept. 27, 1979, 93 Stat. 499, and repealed by Pub. L. 104–201, div. C, title XXXV, §3549, Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2870.

Amendments

1994—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 103–322 struck out “45,” after “11,” and “608, 611, 612,” after “605,”.

1990—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 101–647 substituted “798, 798A, 799” for “798, as added by section 24(a) of the Act of October 31, 1951 (chapter 655, 65 Stat. 719), 798, as added by section 4 of the Act of June 30, 1953 (chapter 175, 67 Stat. 133), 799”.

1968—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 90–357 inserted “, as amended from time to time,” after “title” and before “apply”, included references in sections 203, 205, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, and 218, and struck out reference to section 1914.

1962—Pub. L. 87–845 inserted “; definition” in section catchline, designated existing provisions of section as subsec. (a) and included references to sections 45, 201, 202, 287, 471, 473, 475, 476, 477, 484, 486, 487, 490 to 498, 505, 507 to 509, 752, 755, 798 as added by act of Oct. 31, 1951, 798 as added by act of June 30, 1953, 799, 1001, 1024, 1381, 1991, 2157, 2381 to 2383, 2387, 3042, 3187 and 3195, struck out references to sections 502, 791 and 1362, and added subsecs. (b) and (c).

1953—Act Aug. 5, 1953, inserted “1362” after “1301”.

Effective Date of 1962 Amendment

Section 25 of Pub. L. 87–845 provided that: “This Act [enacting section 4210 of this title and section 858 of Title 50, War and National Defense, and amending this section, section 1934 of Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse, section 196 of Title 24, Hospitals and Asylums, sections 414, 547, 1404, and 1406 of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure, and sections 191a and 191b of Title 50] takes effect January 2, 1963. Laws enacted after January 9, 1962, that are inconsistent with this Act, supersede it to the extent of the inconsistency.”

Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure

Applicability of rules, see rule 54, Appendix to this title.

Cross References

Extradition of fugitives from Canal Zone into extraterritorial jurisdiction of United States, see section 3183 of this title.

Liquor traffic provisions inapplicable to Canal Zone, see section 1261 of this title.

Term United States as not including Canal Zone, see section 5 of this title.

1 See References in Text note below.