18-U.S.C.-879
§879 – Threats Against Former Presidents and Certain Other Persons
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Title 18 > Part I > Chapter 41 > Section 879
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- Reference: Section 879
- Legend: §879 – Threats Against Former Presidents and Certain Other Persons
- USCode Year: 2013
Provision Content
(a) Whoever knowingly and willfully threatens to kill, kidnap, or inflict bodily harm upon—
(1) a former President or a member of the immediate family of a former President;
(2) a member of the immediate family of the President, the President-elect, the Vice President, or the Vice President-elect;
(3) a major candidate for the office of President or Vice President, or a member of the immediate family of such candidate; or
(4) a person protected by the Secret Service under section 3056(a)(6);
shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.
(b) As used in this section—
(1) the term immediate family means—
(A) with respect to subsection (a)(1) of this section, the wife of a former President during his lifetime, the widow of a former President until her death or remarriage, and minor children of a former President until they reach sixteen years of age; and
(B) with respect to subsection (a)(2) and (a)(3) of this section, a person to whom the President, President-elect, Vice President, Vice President-elect, or major candidate for the office of President or Vice President—
(i) is related by blood, marriage, or adoption; or
(ii) stands in loco parentis;
(2) the term major candidate for the office of President or Vice President means a candidate referred to in subsection (a)(7) of section 3056 of this title; and
(3) the terms President-elect and Vice President-elect have the meanings given those terms in section 871(b) of this title.
(Added Pub. L. 97–297, §1(a), Oct. 12, 1982, 96 Stat. 1317; amended Pub. L. 98–587, §3(a), Oct. 30, 1984, 98 Stat. 3111; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, §330016(1)(H), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147; Pub. L. 106–544, §2(a), (b)(1), Dec. 19, 2000, 114 Stat. 2715.)
Amendments
2000—Pub. L. 106–544, §2(b)(1), struck out protected by the Secret Service after other persons in section catchline.
Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 106–544, §2(a)(1)–(4), in par. (3), substituted a member of the immediate family for the spouse, added par. (4), and, in concluding provisions, struck out who is protected by the Secret Service as provided by law, before shall be fined and substituted 5 years for three years.
Subsec. (b)(1)(B). Pub. L. 106–544, §2(a)(5), in introductory provisions, inserted and (a)(3) after subsection (a)(2) and substituted Vice President-elect, or major candidate for the office of President or Vice President for or Vice President-elect.
1994—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 103–322 substituted fined under this title for fined not more than $1,000 in concluding provisions.
1984—Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 98–587 substituted subsection (a)(7) of section 3056 of this title for the first section of the joint resolution entitled ‘Joint resolution to authorize the United States Secret Service to furnish protection to major Presidential or Vice Presidential candidates’, approved June 6, 1968 (18 U.S.C. 3056 note).
Transfer of Functions
For transfer of the functions, personnel, assets, and obligations of the United States Secret Service, including the functions of the Secretary of the Treasury relating thereto, to the Secretary of Homeland Security, and for treatment of related references, see sections 381, 551(d), 552(d), and 557 of Title 6, Domestic Security, and the Department of Homeland Security Reorganization Plan of November 25, 2002, as modified, set out as a note under section 542 of Title 6.
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