Sec. CHAPTER 121-SODOMY AND BESTIALITY 2451. Sodomy. 2452. Bestiality. 2453. Penetration sufficient. § 2451. Sodomy Whoever carnally knows a male or female person by the anus or by or with the mouth, or voluntarily submits to such carnal knowledge, shall (1) if the act is committed with a person under 16 years of age, be imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than 20 years; or (2) if the act is committed with any other person, be imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than 10 years. § 2452. Bestiality Whoever carnally copulates with a beast shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than five years. § 2453. Penetration sufficient Any sexual penetration, however slight, is sufficient to complete either of the crimes prohibited by sections 2451 and 2452 of this title. Sec. CHAPTER 123-STOLEN PROPERTY 2481. Buying or receiving stolen goods; presumptive evidence. § 2481. Buying or receiving stolen goods; presumptive evidence (a) Whoever buys or receives property which has been stolen or which has been obtained in a manner constituting larceny, embezzlement, the obtaining of money or property by false pretenses, or extortion, knowing the property to have been stolen or so obtained, or conceals or withholds any such property from the owner, shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than five years. (b) If the property which has been stolen or has been obtained in a manner described in subsection (a) of this section is brought or received from a person under the age of 18 years, it is presumptive evidence that the person so buying or receiving it knew it to have been stolen or so obtained, unless the property is sold by the minor at a fixed place of business carried on by the minor or his employer. Sec. CHAPTER 125-SUICIDE 2511. Aiding or encouraging suicide. § 2511. Aiding or encouraging suicide Whoever deliberately aids, advises or encourages another person to commit suicide, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than five years, or both. CHAPTER 127-VAGRANCY Sec. 2541. Miscellaneous acts constituting vagrancy. § 2541. Miscellaneous acts constituting vagrancy Whoever: (1) is found within or loitering about a building or structure, or a vessel, railroad car, or storage yard, without authority or permission so to be or to do so; (2) peddles goods or merchandise about a laborers' camp or mess house during hours when laborers are ordinarily employed at work, or in or about places where groups of men are at work; (3) is found in a public place in such a state of intoxication as to disturb others, or as to be unable, by reason of his condition, to care for his own safety or the safety of others; (4) roams about from place to place without any lawful business, and without being able to give a satisfactory account of himself; (5) loiters, prowls or wanders upon the property of another, in the nighttime, without visible or lawful business with the owner or occupant thereof; (6) while loitering, prowling or wandering upon the property of another in the manner and circumstances described by paragraph (4) of this section, peeks in the door or window of a building or structure located thereon which is inhabited by human beings, without visible or lawful business with the owner or occupant thereof; (7) being able by lawful means, to support himself or his spouse or his or her children, willfully refuses or neglects to do 80; (8) being a common prostitute, wanders in the public streets or highways, or in a place of public resort and behaves in a riotous and indecent manner; (9) being in a street, highway or public place, accosts a stranger and offers to take him to the house or residence of a prostitute; (10) being a common prostitute or nightwalker, loiters in a street or highway and importunes passengers for the purpose of prostitution; (11) wanders abroad or places himself in a public place, street, wharf, highway, court or passage in order to beg or gather alms or to cause, procure or encourage a child to so do; (12) being in a street, highway or public place, accosts a stranger or follows him about, without lawful authority or excuse; (13) pretends or professes to tell fortunes by palmistry, "obeah" or any such like superstitious means, or uses or pretends to use any subtle craft or device, in order to deceive and impose upon other persons; (14) lives in or loiters about houses of ill fame; (15) wanders about the streets at late or unusual hours of night, without any visible or lawful business, and without being able to give a satisfactory account of himself; (16) loiters in or about public toilets in public places; (17) annoys or molests a child under the age of 18 years; (18) loiters about a school or public place at or near which school children attend; (19) willfully exposes to view in a street, road, highway or public place, or in the window or other part of a shop or other building situated in a street, road, highway or public place, an obscene print, picture or other indecent exhibition; (20) willfully, openly and obscenely exposes his person in a public street, road, highway or place of public resort, or in view thereof; (21) wanders abroad and endeavors by the exposure of wounds and deformities to obtain or gather alms; (22) endeavors to procure charitable contributions under any false or fraudulent pretenses; (23) being known to be a pickpocket, thief, burglar, or confidence operator, either by his own confession or by his having been convicted as such, and having no visible or other lawful means of support, loiters around a steamboat landing, railroad depot, banking institution, broker's office, place of amusement, auction room, store, shop, or crowded thoroughfare, car, or omnibus, or a public gathering or assembly; (24) has in his custody a picklock, key, crow, jack, bit or other implement with intent to break into a dwelling house, warehouse, store, shop, coachhouse, stable, garage, outbuilding, vehicle, motorboat, launch, or aircraft; (25) is unlawfully armed with a gun, pistol, cutlass, bludgeon or other offensive weapon; (26) has upon him an instrument with intent to commit a felonious act; or (27) engages in any kind of disorderly conduct or breach of the peace, or in any act or conduct inciting to violence or tending to provoke or incite another to breach of the peace is a vagrant, and shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned in jail not more than 30 days, or both. Sec. CHAPTER 129-WEAPONS; HUNTING 2571. General prohibition regarding arms. 2572. Nonapplicability of section 2571 to certain persons. 2573. Permits to keep and carry arms. 2574. Penalties for violation. 2575. Disposition of arms possessed by persons convicted of crime. § 2571. General prohibition regarding arms It is unlawful for a person to carry on or about his person any: (1) firearm; (2) dirk, dagger, knife, or other arm manufactured or sold for the purpose of offense or defense; or (3) slung shot, air gun, sword cane, blackjack, or knuckles made of metal or other hard substance. § 2572. Nonapplicability of section 2571 to certain persons (a) Section 2571 of this title does not apply to: (1) members of the Armed Forces; (2) peace officers or officers authorized to execute judicial process of the United States or the Canal Zone; or (3) persons engaged in the: (A) carrying of mail; or (B) collection or custody of funds of the United States or a department or agency thereof— while they are engaged in the performance of their respective duties. (b) Section 2571 of this title does not apply to: (1) members of gun or pistol clubs organized for the promotion of target practice, when they are going to or from target ranges or are engaged in target practice thereat, if certified copies of the respective constitutions and bylaws of the clubs have been approved by the Governor and filed with the chief of police and fire division; or (2) persons authorized to have or carry arms by permits granted pursuant to the provisions of this chapter or chapter 87 of Title 2. (c) A certificate of membership in a gun or pistol club shall be issued by the organization and approved by the chief of the police and fire division. It shall entitle the holder to carry firearms as provided in this section. § 2573. Permits to keep and carry arms The Governor may authorize the granting of permits to have and carry arms and may prescribe and from time to time amend suitable regulations thereon. Applications for such permits shall be made to the Governor, and must contain the full name, residence and occupation of the applicant. If the applicant is a minor, a permit may not be granted without the consent of his parent or guardian, and no permit may be granted to a minor under 15 years of age. 82574. Penalties for violation Whoever, without authority granted under this chapter, carries on or about his person any of the arms specified by section 2571 of this title, shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned in jail not more than 30 days, or both. § 2575. Disposition of arms possessed by persons convicted of crime In rendering a judgment of conviction of any misdemeanor or felony in violation of the laws of the Canal Zone, perpetrated in whole or in part by means of any of the arms specified by section 2571 of this title and section 1473 of Title 2, a judge or magistrate may, in addition to imposing the penalty provided by law for each offense, order the confiscation and disposal of the arms and ammunition found in the possession or under the immediate control of the defendant at the time of his arrest or determined to have been used or carried by him in the perpetration of the offense charged. The court may direct delivery of the arms and ammunition ordered to be confiscated to the chief of the Canal Zone police, or to his successor in title, for official use or any other proper disposition in his dis cretion. Sec. CHAPTER 131-WEIGHTS AND MEASURES 2601. False weight or measure defined. 2602. Offenses and penalties. § 2601. False weight or measure defined A false weight or measure is one which does not conform to the standard established by the National Bureau of Standards of the Department of Commerce of the United States. § 2602. Offenses and penalties Whoever: (1) uses a weight or measure, or a weighing or measuring instrument, knowing it to be false, by which use another person is defrauded or otherwise injured; (2) knowingly marks or stamps false or short weight or measure, or false tare, on a cask or package, or knowingly sells or offers for sale a cask or package so marked; (3) fails to give to the purchaser full weight in a sale of sugar, coal, or other commodity, usually sold by the ton or fractional parts thereof; (4) fails to give to the purchaser full weight or measure in a sale of merchandise, wares, article of food or drink, or whatever else is purchased by weight or measure; or (5) in putting up in a bag or container of any kind, goods usually sold by weight, places in or conceals therein any other substance or thing whatever, including moisture, except such moisture as may be included or absorbed by the goods or commodity therein during preparation for market or processing in accordance with ordinary commercial practice, for the purpose of increasing the weight or measurement of the container with the intent thereby to sell the goods therein or to enable another person to sell them, for an increased weight or measurement shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned in jail not more than 30 days, or both. 233. DISPOSAL OF STOLEN OR EMBEZZLED PROPERTY AND PROPERTY TAKEN FROM ARRESTED PERSON. 4901 3501. Application of Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. 3502. Criminal action defined. 3503. Parties to criminal action. 3504. Style of process. 3505. Designation of party prosecuted. 3506. Rights of defendant to trial and counsel. 3507. Right to produce and be confronted with witnesses; depositions; prior testimony. 3508. Right of attorney to visit prisoner. 3509. Modes of conviction of public offense. 3510. Offenses committed within special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of United States. 3511. Restraint before conviction. SUBCHAPTER II-DOUBLE JEOPARDY 3541. Prohibition of second prosecution for same offense. 3542. Conviction, acquittal, or Jeopardy; attempts; included offenses. 3543. Former acquittal on merits. 3544. Former acquittal other than on merits. 3545. Dismissal on motion raising defense or objection to information. 3546. Dismissal of unsigned information. 3547. Dismissal by attorney for government or for want of prosecution. SUBCHAPTER III-CHARGING PREVIOUS CONVICTIONS 3571. Charging previous conviction of offenses. 3572. Pleading judgments. 3573. Plea and procedure on charge of previous conviction. 3574. Finding on charge of previous conviction. Subchapter I-General Provisions § 3501. Application of Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure (a) Except as otherwise provided in this Code, the forms of process, writs, pleadings, and motions, and the practice and procedure of the district court in criminal proceedings are governed by the then current Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure for the district courts of the United States prescribed by the Supreme Court of the United States pursuant to sections 3771 and 3772 of Title 18, United States Code. All offenses may, however, be prosecuted in the district court by information. 88558 - 62 - 38 |