Title 18, Crimes and Criminal ProcedureRelease 119-102
§667 Theft of Livestock
Title 18 › PART I — CRIMES › CHAPTER 31 — EMBEZZLEMENT AND THEFT › § 667
Summary
Taking or using another person's property worth $10,000 or more for marketing livestock across state lines or to another country, while intending to deny the owner or keep it, may be fined, jailed up to five years, or both. Livestock — see section 2311 for the legal definition.
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Title 18, §667
Crimes and Criminal Procedure, Source: USLM XML via OLRC
Whoever obtains or uses the property of another which has a value of $10,000 or more in connection with the marketing of livestock in interstate or foreign commerce with intent to deprive the other of a right to the property or a benefit of the property or to appropriate the property to his own use or the use of another shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. The term “livestock” has the meaning set forth in section 2311 of this title.
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1994—Pub. L. 103–322 substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $10,000” and inserted at end “The term ‘livestock’ has the meaning set forth in section 2311 of this title.”
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18 U.S.C. § 667
Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102