[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 18USC2199]
TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
PART I--CRIMES
CHAPTER 107--SEAMEN AND STOWAWAYS
Sec. 2199. Stowaways on vessels or aircraft
Whoever, without the consent of the owner, charterer, master, or
person in command of any vessel, or aircraft, with intent to obtain
transportation, boards, enters or secretes himself aboard such vessel or
aircraft and is thereon at the time of departure of said vessel or
aircraft from a port, harbor, wharf, airport or other place within the
jurisdiction of the United States; or
Whoever, with like intent, having boarded, entered or secreted
himself aboard a vessel or aircraft at any place within or without the
jurisdiction of the United States, remains aboard after the vessel or
aircraft has left such place and is thereon at any place within the
jurisdiction of the United States; or
Whoever, with intent to obtain a ride or transportation, boards or
enters any aircraft owned or operated by the United States without the
consent of the person in command or other duly authorized officer or
agent--
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one
year, or both.
The word ``aircraft'' as used in this section includes any
contrivance for navigation or flight in the air.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 802; Pub. L. 104-294, title VI,
Sec. 601(a)(8), Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3498.)
Historical and Revision Notes
Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Secs. 469-474 (June 11, 1940,
ch. 326, Secs. 1-3, 54 Stat. 306; Mar. 4, 1944, ch. 82, Secs. 1-4, 58
Stat. 111; Apr. 10, 1944, ch. 162, 58 Stat. 188).
Sections consolidated and rewritten with changes of phraseology and
substance.
In section 469 of title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., the element of intent
not to pay for transportation was omitted as unnecessary since the
payment of transportation will invariably remove the stowaway from the
operation of the section by purchasing the master's ``consent''.
In section 472 of title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., the enumerations of
State, Territory, Possession, District of Columbia, and The Canal Zone,
was omitted as adequately covered by ``place within the jurisdict
