47 USC § 505 - Venue of trials

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title: "47 USC § 505 - Venue of trials"
title_number: 47
title_name: "TELECOMMUNICATIONS"
section_number: "505"
section_name: "Venue of trials"
chapter_number: 5
chapter_name: "WIRE OR RADIO COMMUNICATION"
subchapter_number: "V"
subchapter_name: "PENAL PROVISIONS; FORFEITURES"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2025-08-11"
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source_credit: "(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title V, § 505, 48 Stat. 1101.)"
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# § 505. Venue of trials

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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**Source Credit**: (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 , , known as the Communications Act of 1934, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see  and Tables.