§ 372. — Conspiracy to impede or injure officer.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 18USC372]
TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
PART I--CRIMES
CHAPTER 19--CONSPIRACY
Sec. 372. Conspiracy to impede or injure officer
If two or more persons in any State, Territory, Possession, or
District conspire to prevent, by force, intimidation, or threat, any
person from accepting or holding any office, trust, or place of
confidence under the United States, or from discharging any duties
thereof, or to induce by like means any officer of the United States to
leave the place, where his duties as an officer are required to be
performed, or to injure him in his person or property on account of his
lawful discharge of the duties of his office, or while engaged in the
lawful discharge thereof, or to injure his property so as to molest,
interrupt, hinder, or impede him in the discharge of his official
duties, each of such persons shall be fined under this title or
imprisoned not more than six years, or both.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 701; Pub. L. 107-273, div. B, title
IV, Sec. 4002(d)(1)(D), Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1809.)
Historical and Revision Notes
Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 54 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321,
Sec. 21, 35 Stat. 1092).
Scope of section was enlarged to cover all possessions of the United
States. When the section was first enacted in 1861 there were no
possessions, and hence the use of the words ``State or Territory'' was
sufficient to describe the area then subject to the jurisdiction of the
United States. The word ``District'' was inserted by the codifiers of
the 1909 Criminal Code.
Amendments
2002--Pub. L. 107-273 substituted ``under this title'' for ``not
more than $5,000''.
