Source: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2257
Timestamp: 2019-04-26 15:59:21+00:00

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for any person to whom subsection (a) applies to refuse to permit the Attorney General or his or her designee to conduct an inspection under subsection (c).
2006—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 109–248, § 502(a)(1), inserted “digital image, digitally- or computer-manipulated image of an actual human being, picture,” after “videotape,”.
Subsec. (f)(5). Pub. L. 109–248, § 502(a)(3), added par. (5).
Subsec. (h). Pub. L. 109–248, § 502(a)(4), added subsec. (h) and struck out former subsec. (h) which defined “actual sexually explicit conduct”, “identification document”, “produces”, and “performer”.
2003—Subsec. (d)(2). Pub. L. 108–21, § 511(a)(1), substituted “of this chapter or chapter 71,” for “of this section”.
Subsec. (h)(3). Pub. L. 108–21, § 511(a)(2), inserted “, computer generated image, digital image, or picture,” after “video tape”.
Subsec. (i). Pub. L. 108–21, § 511(a)(3), substituted “not more than 5 years” for “not more than 2 years” and “10 years” for “5 years”.
1994—Subsecs. (f), (g). Pub. L. 103–322 struck out subsecs. (f) and (g) as enacted by Pub. L. 100–690. Subsec. (f) authorized Attorney General to issue regulations to carry out this section and subsec. (g) defined “actual sexually explicit conduct”, “identification document”, “produces”, and “performer”.
1990—Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 101–647, § 301(b), substituted “November 1, 1990” for “February 6, 1978”.
Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 101–647, § 311, added subsec. (f) relating to unlawful acts and omissions.
Subsec. (g). Pub. L. 101–647, § 311, added subsec. (g) relating to issuance of regulations.
Subsecs. (h), (i). Pub. L. 101–647, § 311, added subsecs. (h) and (i).
Pub. L. 108–21, title V, § 511(b), Apr. 30, 2003, 117 Stat. 685, provided that, not later than 1 year after Apr. 30, 2003, the Attorney General was to submit to Congress a report detailing the number of times since January 1993 that the Department of Justice had inspected records pursuant to this section and section 75 of title 28 of the Code of Federal Regulations, and the number of violations prosecuted as a result of those inspections.

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