42-U.S.C.-2278

§2278 – Statute of Limitations

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Title 42 > Chapter 23 > Subchapter XVII > Section 2278

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• Reference: Section 2278
• Legend: §2278 – Statute of Limitations
• USCode Year: 2011

Provision Content

Except for a capital offense, no individual or person shall be prosecuted, tried, or punished for any offense prescribed or defined in sections 2274 to 2276 of this title unless the indictment is found or the information is instituted within ten years next after such offense shall have been committed.

(Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724, title I, §228, as added Aug. 30, 1954, ch. 1073, §1, 68 Stat. 959; renumbered title I, Pub. L. 102–486, title IX, §902(a)(8), Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 2944.)

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42-U.S.C.-2286A in the Legal Encyclopedia: Atomic Energy

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