Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal ProcedureRelease 119-73
§896 Effect on State laws
Title 18 › Part PART I— - CRIMES › Chapter CHAPTER 42— - EXTORTIONATE CREDIT TRANSACTIONS › § 896
Summary
It does not take away a state's power to make or enforce laws it could have made before this chapter existed. A state law that would be valid without this chapter cannot be ruled invalid or ignored just because this chapter exists. State officers, agencies, and bodies keep whatever authority they had to handle crimes before this chapter.
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Title 18, §896
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This chapter does not preempt any field of law with respect to which State legislation would be permissible in the absence of this chapter. No law of any State which would be valid in the absence of this chapter may be held invalid or inapplicable by virtue of the existence of this chapter, and no officer, agency, or instrumentality of any State may be deprived by virtue of this chapter of any jurisdiction over any offense over which it would have jurisdiction in the absence of this chapter.
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18 U.S.C. § 896
Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73