§ 4008. — Transportation expenses.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 18USC4008]
TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
PART III--PRISONS AND PRISONERS
CHAPTER 301--GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 4008. Transportation expenses
Prisoners shall be transported by agents designated by the Attorney
General or his authorized representative.
The reasonable expense of transportation, necessary subsistence, and
hire and transportation of guards and agents shall be paid by the
Attorney General from such appropriation for the Department of Justice
as he shall direct.
Upon conviction by a consular court or court martial the prisoner
shall be transported from the court to the place of confinement by
agents of the Department of State, the Army, Navy, or Air Force, as the
case may be, the expense to be paid out of the Treasury of the United
States in the manner provided by law.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 849; May 24, 1949, ch. 139, Sec. 61,
63 Stat. 98.)
Historical and Revision Notes
1948 Act
Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 753g (May 14, 1930, ch.
274, Sec. 8, 46 Stat. 327).
The second paragraph was originally a proviso.
Minor changes of phraseology were made.
1949 Act
This section [section 61] corrects the third paragraph of section
4008 of title 18, U.S.C., by redesignating the ``War Department'' as the
``Department of the Army'', to conform to such redesignation by act of
July 26, 1947 (ch. 343, title II, Sec. 205(a), 61 Stat. 501), and by
inserting a reference to the Department of the Air Force, in view of the
creation of such Department by the same act.
Amendments
1949--Act May 24, 1949, substituted ``the Army, Navy, or Air Force''
for ``War, or the Navy''.
