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18 U.S.C. § 795 — Photographing and sketching defense installations
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**(a)** Whenever, in the interests of national defense, the President defines certain vital military and naval installations or equipment as requiring protection against the general dissemination of information relative thereto, it shall be unlawful to make any photograph, sketch, picture, drawing, map, or graphical representation of such vital military and naval installations or equipment without first obtaining permission of the commanding officer of the military or naval post, camp, or station, or naval vessels, military and naval aircraft, and any separate military or naval command concerned, or higher authority, and promptly submitting the product obtained to such commanding officer or higher authority for censorship or such other action as he may deem necessary.
**(b)** Whoever violates this section shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
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**(a)** Whenever, in the interests of national defense, the President defines certain vital military and naval installations or equipment as requiring protection against the general dissemination of information relative thereto, it shall be unlawful to make any photograph, sketch, picture, drawing, map, or graphical representation of such vital military and naval installations or equipment without first obtaining permission of the commanding officer of the military or naval post, camp, or station, or naval vessels, military and naval aircraft, and any separate military or naval command concerned, or higher authority, and promptly submitting the product obtained to such commanding officer or higher authority for censorship or such other action as he may deem necessary.
**(b)** Whoever violates this section shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
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On and after thirty days from the date upon which the President defines any vital military or naval installation or equipment as being within the category contemplated under [section 795 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title18-section795&num=0&edition=prelim), whoever reproduces, publishes, sells, or gives away any photograph, sketch, picture, drawing, map, or graphical representation of the vital military or naval installations or equipment so defined, without first obtaining permission of the commanding officer of the military or naval post, camp, or station concerned, or higher authority, unless such photograph, sketch, picture, drawing, map, or graphical representation has clearly indicated thereon that it has been censored by the proper military or naval authority, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
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Whoever willfully trespasses upon, injures, or destroys any of the works or property or material of any submarine mine or torpedo or fortification or harbor-defense system owned or constructed or in process of construction by the United States; or
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Whoever uses or permits the use of an aircraft or any contrivance used, or designed for navigation or flight in the air, for the purpose of making a photograph, sketch, picture, drawing, map, or graphical representation of vital military or naval installations or equipment, in violation of [section 795 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title18-section795&num=0&edition=prelim), shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
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TITLE 18—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
§ 795
‘‘, except that the sentence of death shall not be im-
posed unless the jury or, if there is no jury, the court,
further finds that the offense resulted in the identifica-
tion by a foreign power (as defined in section 101(a) of
the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978) of an
individual acting as an agent of the United States and
consequently in the death of that individual, or di-
rectly concerned nuclear weaponry, military spacecraft
or satellites, early warning systems, or other means of
defense or retaliation against large-scale attack; war
plans; communications intelligence or cryptographic
information; or any other major weapons system or
major element of defense strategy.’’
Subsec. (d)(3). Pub. L. 103–359 substituted ‘‘(p)’’ for
‘‘(o)’’ in two places.
1988—Subsec. (d)(4). Pub. L. 100–690 substituted
‘‘amounts’’ for ‘‘amount’’.
1986—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 99–399 added subsec. (d).
1954—Act Sept. 3, 1954, increased the penalty for
peacetime espionage and corrected a deficiency on the
sentencing authority by increasing penalty to death or
imprisonment for any term of years.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1996 AMENDMENT
Amendment by section 604(b)(2) of Pub. L. 104–294 ef-
fective Sept. 13, 1994, see section 604(d) of Pub. L.
104–294, set out as a note under section 13 of this title.
TEMPORARY EXTENSION OF SECTION
Temporary extension of section, see section 798 of
this title.
Act June 30, 1953, ch. 175, § 7, 67 Stat. 133, repealed
Joint Res. July 3, 1952, ch. 570, § 1(a)(29), 66 Stat. 333;
Joint Res. Mar. 31, 1953, ch. 13, § 1, 67 Stat. 18, which had
provided that this section should continue in force
until six months after the termination of the Natio
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