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Timestamp: 2020-04-05 14:12:18
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[USC02] 18 USC 48: Animal crushing
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18 USC 48: Animal crushing Text contains those laws in effect on April 4, 2020
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(1) Crushing.-It shall be unlawful for any person to purposely engage in animal crushing in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce or within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States.
(2) Creation of animal crush videos.-It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly create an animal crush video, if-
(3) Distribution of animal crush videos.-It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly sell, market, advertise, exchange, or distribute an animal crush video in, or using a means or facility of, interstate or foreign commerce.
(b) Extraterritorial Application.-This section applies to the knowing sale, marketing, advertising, exchange, distribution, or creation of an animal crush video outside of the United States, if-
(c) Penalties.-Whoever violates this section shall be fined under this title, imprisoned for not more than 7 years, or both.
(d) Exceptions.-
(1) In general.-This section does not apply with regard to any conduct, or a visual depiction of that conduct, that is-
(2) Good-faith distribution.-This section does not apply to the good-faith distribution of an animal crush video to-
(3) Unintentional conduct.-This section does not apply to unintentional conduct that injures or kills an animal.
(4) Consistency with rfra.-This section shall be enforced in a manner that is consistent with section 3 of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (42 U.S.C. 2000bb–1).
(e) No Preemption.-Nothing in this section shall be construed to preempt the law of any State or local subdivision thereof to protect animals.
(2) the term "animal crush video" means any photograph, motion-picture film, video or digital recording, or electronic image that-
(3) the term "euthanizing an animal" means the humane destruction of an animal accomplished by a method that-
(Added Pub. L. 106–152, §1(a), Dec. 9, 1999, 113 Stat. 1732 ; amended Pub. L. 111–294, §3(a), Dec. 9, 2010, 124 Stat. 3178 ; Pub. L. 116–72, §2(a), Nov. 25, 2019, 133 Stat. 1151 .)
Section 3 of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993, referred to in subsec. (d)(4), is section 3 of Pub. L. 103–141, Nov. 16, 1993, 107 Stat. 1488 , which is classified to section 2000bb–1 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare.
2019-Pub. L. 116–72 amended section generally. Prior to amendment, section related to animal crush videos.
2010-Pub. L. 111–294 amended section generally. Prior to amendment, section related to depiction of animal cruelty.
Pub. L. 111–294, §3(c), Dec. 9, 2010, 124 Stat. 3179 , provided that: "If any provision of section 48 of title 18, United States Code (as amended by this section), or the application of the provision to any person or circumstance, is held to be unconstitutional, the provision and the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby."
Pub. L. 111–294, §2, Dec. 9, 2010, 124 Stat. 3177 , provided that: "The Congress finds the following:
"(6) In the judgment of Congress, many animal crush videos are obscene in the sense that the depictions, taken as a whole-
"(9) The serious acts of extreme animal cruelty necessary to make animal crush videos are committed in a clandestine manner that-