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Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure

1385 sections across 126 chapters.

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Ch. 1 — Principals 2 inactive 24 sections
Ch. 2 — Destruction of aircraft or aircraft facilities 13 sections
Ch. 3 — Hunting 2 inactive 7 sections
Ch. 5 — Arson within special maritime and territorial jurisdiction 1 section
Ch. 7 — Assaulting 9 sections
Ch. 9 — Definition 8 sections
Ch. 10 — Prohibitions with respect to biological weapons 7 sections
Ch. 11 — Bribery of public officials and witnesses 2 inactive 32 sections
Ch. 12 — Civil disorders 3 sections
Ch. 13 — Conspiracy against rights 9 sections
Ch. 15 — Taking or using papers relating to claims 5 inactive 8 sections
Ch. 17 — Mutilation 10 sections
Ch. 18 — Congressional 1 section
Ch. 19 — Conspiracy to commit offense or to defraud United States 3 sections
Ch. 21 — Power of court 3 sections
Ch. 23 — Contracts by Member of Congress 3 inactive 9 sections
Ch. 25 — Counterfeit acts committed outside the United States 47 sections
Ch. 26 — Criminal street gangs 1 section
Ch. 27 — Entry of goods falsely classified 15 sections
Ch. 29 — Troops at polls 2 inactive 20 sections
Ch. 31 — Public money 30 sections
Ch. 33 — Desecration of the flag of the United States 1 inactive 18 sections
Ch. 35 — Prisoners in custody of institution or officer 1 inactive 7 sections
Ch. 37 — Harboring or concealing persons 1 inactive 9 sections
Ch. 39 — Prohibited transactions involving nuclear materials 2 inactive 3 sections
Ch. 40 — Unlawful acts 8 sections
Ch. 41 — Threats against President and successors to the Presidency 10 sections
Ch. 42 — Making extortionate extensions of credit 1 inactive 5 sections
Ch. 43 — Citizen of the United States 7 sections
Ch. 44 — Unlawful acts 15 sections
Ch. 45 — Agents of foreign governments 2 inactive 18 sections
Ch. 46 — Civil forfeiture 7 sections
Ch. 47 — Statements or entries generally 1 inactive 39 sections
Ch. 49 — Concealing person from arrest 4 sections
Ch. 50 — Gambling ships 7 sections
Ch. 51 — Murder 12 sections
Ch. 53 — Indian country defined 1 inactive 19 sections
Ch. 55 — Kidnapping 4 sections
Ch. 57 — Transportation of strikebreakers 1 inactive 1 section
Ch. 59 — Enforcement 5 sections
Ch. 61 — Importing or transporting lottery tickets 8 sections
Ch. 63 — Frauds and swindles 11 sections
Ch. 65 — Government property or contracts 9 sections
Ch. 67 — Enticing desertion and harboring deserters 1 inactive 8 sections
Ch. 68 1 inactive 0 sections
Ch. 69 — Accounts of court officers 9 sections
Ch. 71 — Possession with intent to sell 12 sections
Ch. 73 — Assault on process server 22 sections
Ch. 74 — Partial-birth abortions prohibited 1 section
Ch. 75 — Issuance without authority 7 sections
Ch. 77 — Peonage 19 sections
Ch. 79 — Perjury generally 3 sections
Ch. 81 — Piracy under law of nations 11 sections
Ch. 83 — Laws governing postal savings 4 inactive 49 sections
Ch. 84 — Presidential and Presidential staff assassination 2 sections
Ch. 85 — Transportation or importation 2 sections
Ch. 87 — Providing or possessing contraband in prison 3 sections
Ch. 88 — Video voyeurism 1 section
Ch. 89 — Transportation of dentures 1 section
Ch. 90 — Economic espionage 10 sections
Ch. 91 — Coal depredations 1 inactive 15 sections
Ch. 93 — Collecting or disbursing officer trading in public property 3 inactive 21 sections
Ch. 95 — Interference with commerce by threats or violence 2 inactive 10 sections
Ch. 96 — Prohibited activities 8 sections
Ch. 97 — Entering train to commit crime 1 inactive 2 sections
Ch. 99 1 inactive 0 sections
Ch. 101 — Concealment 6 sections
Ch. 102 — Riots 2 sections
Ch. 103 — Special maritime and territorial jurisdiction 9 sections
Ch. 105 — Fortifications 1 inactive 6 sections
Ch. 107 — Cruelty to seamen 1 inactive 8 sections
Ch. 109 — Assault or resistance 16 sections
Ch. 110 — Sexual exploitation of children 31 sections
Ch. 111 — Conspiracy to destroy vessels 22 sections
Ch. 113 — Transportation of stolen vehicles 1 inactive 43 sections
Ch. 114 — Unlawful acts 6 sections
Ch. 115 — Treason 1 inactive 10 sections
Ch. 117 — Transportation generally 10 sections
Ch. 118 — War crimes 2 sections
Ch. 119 — Interception and disclosure of wire 1 inactive 13 sections
Ch. 121 — Unlawful access to stored communications 13 sections
Ch. 123 — Prohibition on release and use of certain personal informati 5 sections
Ch. 201 — Procedure governed by rules 1 inactive 14 sections
Ch. 203 — Power of courts and magistrates 3 inactive 22 sections
Ch. 204 — Information for which rewards authorized 1 inactive 6 sections
Ch. 205 — Effect of rules of court 1 inactive 18 sections
Ch. 206 — General prohibition on pen register and trap and trace devic 7 sections
Ch. 207 — Release and detention authority generally 1 inactive 16 sections
Ch. 208 — Time limits and exclusions 14 sections
Ch. 209 — Scope and limitation of chapter 16 sections
Ch. 211 — District courts 14 sections
Ch. 212 — Criminal offenses committed by certain members of the Armed 10 sections
Ch. 213 — Capital offenses 21 sections
Ch. 215 — Number of grand jurors 1 inactive 2 sections
Ch. 216 — Summoning and term 4 sections
Ch. 217 — Form and contents 7 sections
Ch. 219 — Misdemeanors 2 sections
Ch. 221 — Term of court 16 sections
Ch. 223 — Competency of accused 2 inactive 31 sections
Ch. 224 — Witness relocation and protection 8 sections
Ch. 225 — Return 2 sections
Ch. 227 — Authorized sentences 25 sections
Ch. 228 — Sentence of death 11 sections
Ch. 229 — Supervision of probation 25 sections
Ch. 231 1 inactive 0 sections
Ch. 232 — Use of information for sentencing 16 sections
Ch. 233 — Jury trial of criminal contempts 3 sections
Ch. 235 — Appeal by United States 12 sections
Ch. 237 — Crime victims’ rights 1 section
Ch. 238 — Sexual assault survivors’ rights 1 section
Ch. 301 — Limitation on detention 14 sections
Ch. 303 — Bureau of Prisons 10 sections
Ch. 305 — Classification and treatment of prisoners 1 inactive 4 sections
Ch. 306 — Scope and limitation of chapter 17 sections
Ch. 307 — Federal Prison Industries 10 sections
Ch. 309 1 inactive 0 sections
Ch. 311 1 inactive 0 sections
Ch. 313 — Determination of mental competency to stand trial to undergo 8 sections
Ch. 314 1 inactive 0 sections
Ch. 315 — Arrested but unconvicted persons 2 inactive 2 sections
Ch. 317 — Board of Advisers 2 sections
Ch. 319 — Authority of Institute 1 inactive 2 sections
Ch. 401 — Surrender to State authorities 1 inactive 2 sections
Ch. 402 3 inactive 0 sections
Ch. 403 — Delinquency proceedings in district courts 1 inactive 12 sections
Ch. 601 — Immunity generally 5 sections