18-U.S.C.-244

§244 – Discrimination Against Person Wearing Uniform of Armed Forces

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Title 18 > Part I > Chapter 13 > Section 244

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• Reference: Section 244
• Legend: §244 – Discrimination Against Person Wearing Uniform of Armed Forces
• USCode Year: 2013

Provision Content

Whoever, being a proprietor, manager, or employee of a theater or other public place of entertainment or amusement in the District of Columbia, or in any Territory, or Possession of the United States, causes any person wearing the uniform of any of the armed forces of the United States to be discriminated against because of that uniform, shall be fined under this title.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 697; May 24, 1949, ch. 139, §5, 63 Stat. 90; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, §330016(1)(G), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

Historical and Revision Notes

1948 Act

Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., §523 (Mar. 1, 1911, ch. 187, 36 Stat. 963; Aug. 24, 1912, ch. 387, §1, 37 Stat. 512; Jan. 28, 1915, ch. 20, §1, 38 Stat. 800).

Words guilty of a misdemeanor, following shall be, were omitted as unnecessary in view of definition of misdemeanor in section 1 of this title. (See revisers note under section 212 of this title.)

Changes were made in phraseology.

1949 Act

This section [section 5] substitutes, in section 244 of title 18, U.S.C., any of the armed forces of the United States for the enumeration of specific branches and thereby includes the Air Force, formerly part of the Army. This clarification is necessary because of the establishment of the Air Force as a separate branch of the Armed Forces by the act of July 26, 1947.

Amendments

1994—Pub. L. 103–322 substituted fined under this title for fined not more than $500.

1949—Act May 24, 1949, substituted any of the armed forces of the United States for enumeration of the specific branches.

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