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18 U.S.C. § 3240 — Creation of new district or division
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Whenever any new district or division is established, or any county or territory is transferred from one district or division to another district or division, prosecutions for offenses committed within such district, division, county, or territory prior to such transfer, shall be commenced and proceeded with the same as if such new district or division had not been created, or such county or territory had not been transferred, unless the court, upon the application of the defendant, shall order the case to be removed to the new district or division for trial.
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Whenever any new district or division is established, or any county or territory is transferred from one district or division to another district or division, prosecutions for offenses committed within such district, division, county, or territory prior to such transfer, shall be commenced and proceeded with the same as if such new district or division had not been created, or such county or territory had not been transferred, unless the court, upon the application of the defendant, shall order the case to be removed to the new district or division for trial.
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South Carolina constitutes one judicial district comprising eleven divisions.
(1) The Charleston Division comprises the counties of Berkeley, Charleston, Clarendon, Colleton, Dorchester, and Georgetown.Court for the Charleston Division shall be held at Charleston.
(2) The Columbia Division comprises the counties of Kershaw, Lee, Lexington, Richland, and Sumter.Court for the Columbia Division shall be held at Columbia.
(3) The Florence Division comprises the counties of Chesterfield, Darlington, Dillon, Florence, Horry, Marion, Marlboro, and Williamsburg.Court for the Florence Division shall be held at Florence.
(4) The Aiken Division comprises the counties of Aiken, Allendale, and Barnwell.Court for the Aiken Division shall be held at Aiken.
(5) The Orangeburg Division comprises the counties of Bamberg, Calhoun, and Orangeburg.Court for the Orangeburg Division shall be held at Orangeburg.
(6) The Greenville Division comprises the counties of Greenville and Laurens.Court for the Greenville Division shall be held at Greenville.
(7) The Rock Hill Division comprises the counties of Chester, Fairfield, Lancaster, and York.Court for the Rock Hill Division shall be held at Rock Hill.
(8) The Greenwood Division comprises the counties of Abbeville, Edgefield, Greenwood, McCormick, Newberry, and Saluda.Court for the Greenwood Division shall be held at Greenwood.
(9) The Anderson Division comprises the counties of Anderson, Oconee, and Pickens.Court for the Anderson Division shall be held at Anderson.
(10) The Spartanburg Division comprises the counties of Cherokee, Spartanburg, and Union.Court for the Spartanburg Division shall be held at Spartanburg.
(11) The Beaufort Division comprises the counties of Beaufort, Hampton, and Jasper.Court for the Beaufort Division shal
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Puerto Rico constitutes one judicial district.
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**(a)** For the convenience of parties and witnesses, in the interest of justice, a district court may transfer any civil action to any other district or division where it might have been brought or to any district or division to which all parties have consented.
**(b)** Upon motion, consent or stipulation of all parties, any action, suit or proceeding of a civil nature or any motion or hearing thereof, may be transferred, in the discretion of the court, from the division in which pending to any other division in the same district. Transfer of proceedings in rem brought by or on behalf of the United States may be transferred under this section without the consent of the United States where all other parties request transfer.
**(c)** A district court may order any civil action to be tried at any place within the division in which it is pending.
**(d)** Transfers from a district court of the United States to the District Court of Guam, the District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands, or the District Court of the Virgin Islands shall not be permitted under this section. As otherwise used in this section, the term “district court” includes the District Court of Guam, the District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands, and the District Court of the Virgin Islands, and the term “district” includes the territorial jurisdiction of each such court.
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Illinois is divided into three judicial districts to be known as the Northern, Central, and Southern Districts of Illinois.
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TITLE 18—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
§ 3241
1 See References in Text note below.
offender, or any one of two or more joint offenders, is
arrested; an indictment or information to be filed in
the district of the last known residence of the offender
or of any one of two or more joint offenders where the
offender or offenders are not arrested or brought into
any district; and an indictment or information to be
filed in the District of Columbia where there is no
knowledge of the residence of the offender or of any one
of two or more joint offenders.
§ 3239. Optional venue for espionage and related
offenses
The trial for any offense involving a violation,
begun or committed upon the high seas or else-
where out of the jurisdiction of any particular
State or district, of—
(1) section 793, 794, 798, or section 1030(a)(1) of
this title;
(2) section 601 of the National Security Act
of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 421); 1 or
(3) section 4(b) or 4(c) of the Subversive Ac-
tivities Control Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. 783(b) or
(c));
may be in the District of Columbia or in any
other district authorized by law.
(Added Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXII, § 320909(a),
Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2127.)
Editorial Notes
REFERENCES IN TEXT
The National Security Act of 1947, referred to in par.
(2), is act July 26, 1947, ch. 343, 61 Stat. 495, which was
formerly classified principally to chapter 15 (§ 401 et
seq.) of Title 50, War and National Defense, prior to edi-
torial reclassification in chapter 44 (§ 3001 et seq.) of
Title 50. Section 601 of this Act is now classified to sec-
tion 3121 of Title 50. For complete classification of this
Act to the Code, see Tables.
PRIOR PROVISIONS
A prior section 3239, act June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat.
827, related to threatening c
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