§ 3331. — Summoning and term.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 18USC3331]
TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
PART II--CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
CHAPTER 216--SPECIAL GRAND JURY
Sec. 3331. Summoning and term
(a) In addition to such other grand juries as shall be called from
time to time, each district court which is located in a judicial
district containing more than four million inhabitants or in which the
Attorney General, the Deputy Attorney General, the Associate Attorney
General, or any designated Assistant Attorney General, certifies in
writing to the chief judge of the district that in his judgment a
special grand jury is necessary because of criminal activity in the
district shall order a special grand jury to be summoned at least once
in each period of eighteen months unless another special grand jury is
then serving. The grand jury shall serve for a term of eighteen months
unless an order for its discharge is entered earlier by the court upon a
determination of the grand jury by majority vote that its business has
been completed. If, at the end of such term or any extension thereof,
the district court determines the business of the grand jury has not
been completed, the court may enter an order extending such term for an
additional period of six months. No special grand jury term so extended
shall exceed thirty-six months, except as provided in subsection (e) of
section 3333 of this chapter.
(b) If a district court within any judicial circuit fails to extend
the term of a special grand jury or enters an order for the discharge of
such grand jury before such grand jury determines that it has completed
its business, the grand jury, upon the affirmative vote of a majority of
its members, may apply to the chief judge of the circuit for an order
for the continuance of the term of the grand jury. Upon the making of
such an application by the grand jury, the term thereof shall continue
until the entry upon such application by the chief judge of the circuit
of an appropriate order. No special grand jury term so extended shall
exceed thirty-six months, except as provided in subsection (e) of
section 3333 of this chapter.
(Added Pub. L. 91-452, title I, Sec. 101(a), Oct. 15, 1970, 84 Stat.
923; amended Pub. L. 100-690, title VII, Sec. 7020(d), Nov. 18, 1988,
102 Stat. 4396.)
Amendments
1988--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 100-690 inserted ``, the Associate
Attorney General'' after ``Deputy Attorney General''.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 3334 of this title.
