2002 US Code
Title 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
PART I - CRIMES
CHAPTER 3 - ANIMALS, BIRDS, FISH, AND PLANTS
Sec. 48 - Depiction of animal cruelty
View MetadataPublication Title | United States Code, 2000 Edition, Supplement 2, Title 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE |
Category | Bills and Statutes |
Collection | United States Code |
SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
Contained Within | Title 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE PART I - CRIMES CHAPTER 3 - ANIMALS, BIRDS, FISH, AND PLANTS Sec. 48 - Depiction of animal cruelty |
Contains | section 48 |
Date | 2002 |
Laws in Effect as of Date | January 6, 2003 |
Positive Law | Yes |
Disposition | standard |
Source Credit | Added Pub. L. 106-152, §1(a), Dec. 9, 1999, 113 Stat. 1732. |
Statutes at Large Reference | 113 Stat. 1732 |
Public Law Reference | Public Law 106-152 |
§48. Depiction of animal cruelty
(a) Creation, Sale, or Possession.—Whoever knowingly creates, sells, or possesses a depiction of animal cruelty with the intention of placing that depiction in interstate or foreign commerce for commercial gain, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.
(b) Exception.—Subsection (a) does not apply to any depiction that has serious religious, political, scientific, educational, journalistic, historical, or artistic value.
(c) Definitions.—In this section—
(1) the term “depiction of animal cruelty” means any visual or auditory depiction, including any photograph, motion-picture film, video recording, electronic image, or sound recording of conduct in which a living animal is intentionally maimed, mutilated, tortured, wounded, or killed, if such conduct is illegal under Federal law or the law of the State in which the creation, sale, or possession takes place, regardless of whether the maiming, mutilation, torture, wounding, or killing took place in the State; and
(2) the term “State” means each of the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and any other commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States.
(Added Pub. L. 106–152, §1(a), Dec. 9, 1999, 113 Stat. 1732.)
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