Title 18 › Part PART II— - CRIMINAL PROCEDURE › Chapter CHAPTER 212— - MILITARY EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION › § 3266
The Secretary of Defense must create rules, after talking with the Secretary of State and the Attorney General, on how to capture, hold, hand over, and remove people under this part of the law and how to help with the legal steps in section 3265. Those rules must be the same across the whole Department of Defense. The rules must also, as much as possible, require that people who work for or go with the U.S. military overseas and who are not U.S. nationals be told they might be subject to U.S. criminal law. Not giving that notice does not stop a U.S. court from having authority or give a person a defense in cases under this part. The rules or any changes to them cannot start until 90 days after the Secretary of Defense sends a report with the rules or changes to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees.
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18 U.S.C. § 3266
Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure
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Apr 6, 2026
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