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49 U.S.C. § 46503 — Interference with security screening personnel
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**(a) In General.—** An individual in an area within a commercial service airport in the United States who, by assaulting a Federal, airport, or air carrier employee who has security duties within the airport, interferes with the performance of the duties of the employee or lessens the ability of the employee to perform those duties, shall be fined under title 18, imprisoned for not more than 10 years, or both. If the individual used a dangerous weapon in committing the assault or interference, the individual may be imprisoned for any term of years or life imprisonment.
**(b) Airport and Air Carrier Employees.—** For purposes of this section, an airport or air carrier employee who has security duties within the airport includes an airport or air carrier employee performing ticketing, check-in, baggage claim, or boarding functions.
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**(a) In General.—** An individual in an area within a commercial service airport in the United States who, by assaulting a Federal, airport, or air carrier employee who has security duties within the airport, interferes with the performance of the duties of the employee or lessens the ability of the employee to perform those duties, shall be fined under title 18, imprisoned for not more than 10 years, or both. If the individual used a dangerous weapon in committing the assault or interference, the individual may be imprisoned for any term of years or life imprisonment.
**(b) Airport and Air Carrier Employees.—** For purposes of this section, an airport or air carrier employee who has security duties within the airport includes an airport or air carrier employee performing ticketing, check-in, baggage claim, or boarding functions.
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**(a)** A defendant who has been found guilty of—
(1) an offense described in section 794 or section 2381; or
(2) any other offense for which a sentence of death is provided, if the defendant, as determined beyond a reasonable doubt at the hearing under section 3593—
(A) intentionally killed the victim;
(B) intentionally inflicted serious bodily injury that resulted in the death of the victim;
(C) intentionally participated in an act, contemplating that the life of a person would be taken or intending that lethal force would be used in connection with a person, other than one of the participants in the offense, and the victim died as a direct result of the act; or
(D) intentionally and specifically engaged in an act of violence, knowing that the act created a grave risk of death to a person, other than one of the participants in the offense, such that participation in the act constituted a reckless disregard for human life and the victim died as a direct result of the act,
**(b)** A defendant who has been found guilty of—
(1) an offense referred to in section 408(c)(1) of the Controlled Substances Act ([21 U.S.C. 848(c)(1)](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title21-section848/c/1&num=0&edition=prelim)), committed as part of a continuing criminal enterprise offense under the conditions described in subsection (b) of that section which involved not less than twice the quantity of controlled substance described in subsection (b)(2)(A) or twice the gross receipts described in subsection (b)(2)(B); or
(2) an offense referred to in section 408(c)(1) of the Controlled Substances Act ([21 U.S.C. 848(c)(1)](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title21-section848/c/1&num=0&edition=prelim)), committed as part of a
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**(a) Definitions.—** In this section:
(1) **Administrator.—** — The term “Administrator” means the Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration.
(2) **Law enforcement personnel.—** — The term “law enforcement personnel” means individuals—
(A) authorized to carry and use firearms;
(B) vested with the degree of the police power of arrest the Administrator considers necessary to carry out this section; and
(C) identifiable by appropriate indicia of authority.
**(b) Protection Against Violence and Piracy.—** The Administrator shall prescribe regulations to protect passengers and property on an aircraft operating in air transportation or intrastate air transportation against an act of criminal violence or aircraft piracy. When prescribing a regulation under this subsection, the Administrator shall—
(1) consult with the Secretary of Transportation, the Attorney General, the heads of other departments, agencies, and instrumentalities of the United States Government, and State and local authorities;
(2) consider whether a proposed regulation is consistent with—
(A) protecting passengers; and
(B) the public interest in promoting air transportation and intrastate air transportation;
(3) to the maximum extent practicable, require a uniform procedure for searching and detaining passengers and property to ensure—
(A) their safety; and
(B) courteous and efficient treatment by an air carrier, an agent or employee of an air carrier, and Government, State, and local law enforcement personnel carrying out this section; and
(4) consider the extent to which a proposed regulation will carry out this section.
**(c) Security Programs.—**
(1) The Administrator shall prescribe regulations under subsection (b) of this section that require each operat
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**(a) In Special Aircraft Jurisdiction.—**
(1) In this subsection—
(A) “aircraft piracy” means seizing or exercising control of an aircraft in the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States by force, violence, threat of force or violence, or any form of intimidation, and with wrongful intent.
(B) an attempt to commit aircraft piracy is in the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States although the aircraft is not in flight at the time of the attempt if the aircraft would have been in the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States had the aircraft piracy been completed.
(2) An individual committing or attempting or conspiring to commit aircraft piracy—
(A) shall be imprisoned for at least 20 years; or
(B) notwithstanding [section 3559(b) of title 18](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title18-section3559/b&num=0&edition=prelim), if the death of another individual results from the commission or attempt, shall be put to death or imprisoned for life.
**(b) Outside Special Aircraft Jurisdiction.—**
(1) An individual committing or conspiring to commit an offense (as defined in the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft) on an aircraft in flight outside the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States—
(A) shall be imprisoned for at least 20 years; or
(B) notwithstanding [section 3559(b) of title 18](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title18-section3559/b&num=0&edition=prelim), if the death of another individual results from the commission or attempt, shall be put to death or imprisoned for life.
(2) There is jurisdiction over the offense in paragraph (1) if—
(A) a national of the United States was aboard the aircraft;
(B) an offender is a nat
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TITLE 49—TRANSPORTATION
§ 46503
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1994 AMENDMENT
Amendment by Pub. L. 103–429 effective July 5, 1994,
see section 9 of Pub. L. 103–429, set out as a note under
section 321 of this title.
DEATH PENALTY PROCEDURES FOR CERTAIN AIR PIRACY
CASES OCCURRING BEFORE ENACTMENT
OF
THE FED-
ERAL DEATH PENALTY ACT OF 1994
Pub. L. 109–177, title II, § 211, Mar. 9, 2006, 120 Stat.
230, provided that:
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 60003 of the Violent Crime
Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (Public Law
103–322), is amended, as of the time of its enactment
[Sept. 13, 1994], by adding at the end the following:
‘‘ ‘(c) [Omitted, see below.]’.
‘‘(b) SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.—If any provision of sec-
tion 60003(b)(2) of the Violent Crime and Law Enforce-
ment Act of 1994 (Public Law 103–322) [repealed section
46503 of this title], or the application thereof to any
person or any circumstance is held invalid, the remain-
der of such section and the application of such section
to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected
thereby.’’
Pub. L. 103–322, title VI, § 60003(c), as added by Pub. L.
109–177, title II, § 211(a), Mar. 9, 2006, 120 Stat. 230, pro-
vided that:
‘‘(c) DEATH PENALTY PROCEDURES FOR CERTAIN PRE-
VIOUS
AIRCRAFT
PIRACY
VIOLATIONS.—An individual
convicted of violating section 46502 of title 49, United
States Code, or its predecessor, may be sentenced to
death in accordance with the procedures established in
chapter 228 of title 18, United States Code, if for any of-
fense committed before the enactment of the Violent
Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (Public
Law 103–322) [Sept. 13, 1994], but after the enactment of
the Antihijacking Act of 1974 (Public Law 93–366) [Aug.
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