§3058 — Title 18 Crimes and Criminal Procedure | U.S. Code

Summary

People who are members of an enemy army or navy and are being held in the United States who leave or try to leave without permission, or who overstay an allowed leave, can be arrested by U.S. marshals or military authorities and sent back to where they are held for the time the U.S. official in charge decides.

Title 18, §3058

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Whoever, belonging to the armed land or naval forces of a belligerent nation or belligerent faction and being interned in the United States, in accordance with the law of nations, leaves or attempts to leave said jurisdiction, or leaves or attempts to leave the limits of internment without permission from the proper official of the United States in charge, or willfully overstays a leave of absence granted by such official, shall be subject to arrest by any marshal or deputy marshal of the United States, or by the military or naval authorities thereof, and shall be returned to the place of internment and there confined and safely kept for such period of time as the official of the United States in charge shall direct.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 37 (June 15, 1917, ch. 30, title V, § 7, 40 Stat. 223). Said section 37 was incorporated in this section and section 756 of this title. Minor verbal changes were made.

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1990—Pub. L. 101–647 substituted “belligerent” for “beligerent” before “nation”.

§3058 Interned Belligerent Nationals