2020 US Code
Title 47 - Telecommunications
Chapter 5 - Wire or Radio Communication
Subchapter V - Penal Provisions; Forfeitures
Sec. 505 - Venue of trials
| 47 U.S.C. § 505 (2020) |
| §505. Venue of trials |
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The trial of any offense under this chapter shall be in the district in which it is committed; or if the offense is committed upon the high seas, or out of the jurisdiction of any particular State or district, the trial shall be in the district where the offender may be found or into which he shall be first brought. Whenever the offense is begun in one jurisdiction and completed in another it may be dealt with, inquired of, tried, determined, and punished in either jurisdiction in the same manner as if the offense had been actually and wholly committed therein. |
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(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title V, §505, 48 Stat. 1101.) |
| EDITORIAL NOTES
REFERENCES IN TEXT
This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original "this Act", meaning act June 19, 1934, ch. 652, 48 Stat. 1064, known as the Communications Act of 1934, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 609 of this title and Tables. |
| United States Code, 2018 Edition, Supplement 2, Title 47 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS |
| Bills and Statutes |
| United States Code |
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| Title 47 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS CHAPTER 5 - WIRE OR RADIO COMMUNICATION SUBCHAPTER V - PENAL PROVISIONS; FORFEITURES Sec. 505 - Venue of trials |
| section 505 |
| 2020 |
| January 13, 2021 |
| No |
| standard |
| 48 Stat. 1101, 1064 |
