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18 U.S.C. § 1073 — Flight to avoid prosecution or giving testimony
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Whoever moves or travels in interstate or foreign commerce with intent either (1) to avoid prosecution, or custody or confinement after conviction, under the laws of the place from which he flees, for a crime, or an attempt to commit a crime, punishable by death or which is a felony under the laws of the place from which the fugitive flees, or (2) to avoid giving testimony in any criminal proceedings in such place in which the commission of an offense punishable by death or which is a felony under the laws of such place, is charged, or (3) to avoid service of, or contempt proceedings for alleged disobedience of, lawful process requiring attendance and the giving of testimony or the production of documentary evidence before an agency of a State empowered by the law of such State to conduct investigations of alleged criminal activities, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. For the purposes of clause (3) of this paragraph, the term “State” includes a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States.
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Whoever moves or travels in interstate or foreign commerce with intent either (1) to avoid prosecution, or custody or confinement after conviction, under the laws of the place from which he flees, for a crime, or an attempt to commit a crime, punishable by death or which is a felony under the laws of the place from which the fugitive flees, or (2) to avoid giving testimony in any criminal proceedings in such place in which the commission of an offense punishable by death or which is a felony under the laws of such place, is charged, or (3) to avoid service of, or contempt proceedings for alleged disobedience of, lawful process requiring attendance and the giving of testimony or the production of documentary evidence before an agency of a State empowered by the law of such State to conduct investigations of alleged criminal activities, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. For the purposes of clause (3) of this paragraph, the term “State” includes a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States.
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The term “interstate commerce”, as used in this title, includes commerce between one State, Territory, Possession, or the District of Columbia and another State, Territory, Possession, or the District of Columbia.
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**(a)** The appropriate authorities of every State shall enforce according to its terms, and shall not modify except as provided in subsections (f), (g), and (h) of this section, any custody determination or visitation determination made consistently with the provisions of this section by a court of another State.
**(b)** As used in this section, the term—
(1) “child” means a person under the age of eighteen;
(2) “contestant” means a person, including a parent or grandparent, who claims a right to custody or visitation of a child;
(3) “custody determination” means a judgment, decree, or other order of a court providing for the custody of a child, and includes permanent and temporary orders, and initial orders and modifications;
(4) “home State” means the State in which, immediately preceding the time involved, the child lived with his parents, a parent, or a person acting as parent, for at least six consecutive months, and in the case of a child less than six months old, the State in which the child lived from birth with any of such persons. Periods of temporary absence of any of such persons are counted as part of the six-month or other period;
(5) “modification” and “modify” refer to a custody or visitation determination which modifies, replaces, supersedes, or otherwise is made subsequent to, a prior custody or visitation determination concerning the same child, whether made by the same court or not;
(6) “person acting as a parent” means a person, other than a parent, who has physical custody of a child and who has either been awarded custody by a court or claims a right to custody;
(7) “physical custody” means actual possession and control of a child;
(8) “State” means a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico,
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This chapter may be cited as the “Social Security Act”.
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TITLE 18—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
§ 1071
§ 1071. Concealing person from arrest
Whoever harbors or conceals any person for
whose arrest a warrant or process has been
issued under the provisions of any law of the
United States, so as to prevent his discovery and
arrest, after notice or knowledge of the fact that
a warrant or process has been issued for the ap-
prehension of such person, shall be fined under
this title or imprisoned not more than one year,
or both; except that if the warrant or process
issued on a charge of felony, or after conviction
of such person of any offense, the punishment
shall be a fine under this title, or imprisonment
for not more than five years, or both.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 755; Aug. 20, 1954,
ch. 771, 68 Stat. 747; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII,
§ 330016(1)(H), (K), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147;
Pub. L. 107–273, div. B, title IV, § 4003(a)(3), Nov.
2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1811.)
HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES
Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 246 (Mar. 4, 1909,
ch. 321, § 141, 35 Stat. 1114).
Section 246 of title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., was divided.
Part is in this section and the remainder is incor-
porated in section 752 of this title.
Minor changes were made in phraseology.
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
2002—Pub. L. 107–273 substituted ‘‘fine under this
title’’ for ‘‘fine of under this title’’.
1994—Pub. L. 103–322 substituted ‘‘under this title’’
for ‘‘not more than $1,000’’ after ‘‘person, shall be
fined’’ and for ‘‘not more than $5,000’’ after ‘‘shall be a
fine of’’.
1954—Act Aug. 20, 1954, increased the penalty from 6
months to 1 year where the violator harbored a person
for whom process has been issued on a misdemeanor
charge and inserted the penalty provision where the
violat
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