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18 U.S.C. § 81 — Arson within special maritime and territorial jurisdiction
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Whoever, within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States, willfully and maliciously sets fire to or burns any building, structure or vessel, any machinery or building materials or supplies, military or naval stores, munitions of war, or any structural aids or appliances for navigation or shipping, or attempts or conspires to do such an act, shall be imprisoned for not more than 25 years, fined the greater of the fine under this title or the cost of repairing or replacing any property that is damaged or destroyed, or both.
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Whoever, within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States, willfully and maliciously sets fire to or burns any building, structure or vessel, any machinery or building materials or supplies, military or naval stores, munitions of war, or any structural aids or appliances for navigation or shipping, or attempts or conspires to do such an act, shall be imprisoned for not more than 25 years, fined the greater of the fine under this title or the cost of repairing or replacing any property that is damaged or destroyed, or both.
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The term “special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States”, as used in this title, includes:
(1) The high seas, any other waters within the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States and out of the jurisdiction of any particular State, and any vessel belonging in whole or in part to the United States or any citizen thereof, or to any corporation created by or under the laws of the United States, or of any State, Territory, District, or possession thereof, when such vessel is within the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States and out of the jurisdiction of any particular State.
(2) Any vessel registered, licensed, or enrolled under the laws of the United States, and being on a voyage upon the waters of any of the Great Lakes, or any of the waters connecting them, or upon the Saint Lawrence River where the same constitutes the International Boundary Line.
(3) Any lands reserved or acquired for the use of the United States, and under the exclusive or concurrent jurisdiction thereof, or any place purchased or otherwise acquired by the United States by consent of the legislature of the State in which the same shall be, for the erection of a fort, magazine, arsenal, dockyard, or other needful building.
(4) Any island, rock, or key containing deposits of guano, which may, at the discretion of the President, be considered as appertaining to the United States.
(5) Any aircraft belonging in whole or in part to the United States, or any citizen thereof, or to any corporation created by or under the laws of the United States, or any State, Territory, district, or possession thereof, while such aircraft is in flight over the high seas, or over any other waters within the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States a
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Whoever, within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States, willfully and maliciously destroys or injures any structure, conveyance, or other real or personal property, or attempts or conspires to do such an act, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both, and if the building be a dwelling, or the life of any person be placed in jeopardy, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
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Whoever knowingly and willfully makes, or presents any false, fictitious or fraudulent affidavit, declaration, certificate, voucher, endorsement, or paper or writing purporting to be such, concerning any claim for pension or payment thereof, or pertaining to any other matter within the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, or knowingly or willfully makes or presents any paper required as a voucher in drawing a pension, which paper bears a date subsequent to that upon which it was actually signed or acknowledged by the pensioner; or
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TITLE 18—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
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cumstance, is held to be unconstitutional, the provi-
sion and the application of the provision to other per-
sons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.’’
FINDINGS
Pub. L. 111–294, § 2, Dec. 9, 2010, 124 Stat. 3177, provided
that: ‘‘The Congress finds the following:
‘‘(1) The United States has a long history of prohib-
iting the interstate sale, marketing, advertising, ex-
change, and distribution of obscene material and
speech that is integral to criminal conduct.
‘‘(2) The Federal Government and the States have a
compelling interest in preventing intentional acts of
extreme animal cruelty.
‘‘(3) Each of the several States and the District of
Columbia criminalize intentional acts of extreme ani-
mal cruelty, such as the intentional crushing, burn-
ing, drowning, suffocating, or impaling of animals for
no socially redeeming purpose.
‘‘(4) There are certain extreme acts of animal cru-
elty that appeal to a specific sexual fetish. These acts
of extreme animal cruelty are videotaped, and the re-
sulting video tapes are commonly referred to as ‘ani-
mal crush videos’.
‘‘(5) The Supreme Court of the United States has
long held that obscenity is an exception to speech
protected under the First Amendment to the Con-
stitution of the United States.
‘‘(6) In the judgment of Congress, many animal
crush videos are obscene in the sense that the depic-
tions, taken as a whole—
‘‘(A) appeal to the prurient interest in sex;
‘‘(B) are patently offensive; and
‘‘(C) lack serious literary, artistic, political, or
scientific value.
‘‘(7) Serious criminal acts of extreme animal cru-
elty are integral to the creation, sale, distribution,
advertising, marketing, and exchange of animal crush
videos.
‘‘(8) The
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