PUBLIC LAW 97-351—OCT. 18, 1982
96 STAT. 1663
Public Law 97-351 97th Congress An Act To amend title 18 of the United States Code to implement the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SHORT TITLE
1. This Act may be cited as the "Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material Implementation Act of 1982". SECTION
Oct. 18, 1982 [H.R. 5228] Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material Implementation Act of 1982. 18 USC 831 note.
IMPLEMENTATION OF CONVENTION AND PROHIBITION OF RELATED OFFENSES
SEC. 2. (a) Chapter 89 of title 18 of the United States Code is amended by inserting after the table of sections at the beginning of such chapter the following new section: 18 USC 831.
- '§ 831. Prohibited transactions involving nuclear materials
"(a) Whoever, if one of the circumstances described in subsection (c) of this section occurs— "(1) without lawful authority, intentionally receives, possesses, uses, transfers, alters, disposes of, or disperses any nuclear material and— "(A) thereby knowingly causes the death of or serious bodily injury to any person or substantial damage to property; or "(B) knows that circumstances exist which are likely to cause the death of or serious bodily injury to any person or substantial damage to property; "(2) with intent to deprive another of nuclear material, knowingly— "(A) takes and carries away nuclear material of another without authority; "(B) makes an unauthorized use, disposition, or transfer, of nuclear material belonging to another; or "(C) uses fraud and thereby obtains nuclear material belonging to another; "(3) knowingly— "(A) uses force; or "(B) threatens or places another in fear that any person other than the actor will imminently be subject to bodily injury; and thereby takes nuclear material belonging to another from the person or presence of any other; "(4) intentionally intimidates any person and thereby obtains nuclear material belonging to another;
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