18 USC § 2111 - Special maritime and territorial jurisdiction

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identifier: "/us/usc/t18/s2111"
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title: "18 USC § 2111 - Special maritime and territorial jurisdiction"
title_number: 18
title_name: "CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE"
section_number: "2111"
section_name: "Special maritime and territorial jurisdiction"
chapter_number: 103
chapter_name: "ROBBERY AND BURGLARY"
part_number: "I"
part_name: "CRIMES"
positive_law: true
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-21"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 796; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXII, § 320903(a)(1), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2124.)"
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# § 2111. Special maritime and territorial jurisdiction

Whoever, within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States, by force and violence, or by intimidation, takes or attempts to take from the person or presence of another anything of value, shall be imprisoned not more than fifteen years.

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**Source Credit**: (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 796; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXII, § 320903(a)(1), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2124.)

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 463 (, ).

Words “within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States” were added to restrict the place of the offense to those places described in , U.S.C., 1940 ed., now .

Minor changes were made in phraseology.

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1994— inserted “or attempts to take” after “takes”.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Short Title of 1996 Amendment

> “This Act [amending
> 
> ] may be cited as the ‘Carjacking Correction Act of 1996’.”

, , , provided that: