18 USC Chapter 205 - SEARCHES AND SEIZURES | Title 18 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure | U.S. Code

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Sec. 3101. Effect of rules of court—Rule. 3102. Authority to issue search warrant—Rule. 3103. Grounds for issuing search warrant—Rule. 3103a. Additional grounds for issuing warrant. 3104. Issuance of search warrant; contents—Rule. 3105. Persons authorized to serve search warrant. 3106. Officer authorized to serve search warrant—Rule. 3107. Service of warrants and seizures by Federal Bureau of Investigation. 3108. Execution, service, and return—Rule. 3109. Breaking doors or windows for entry or exit. 3110. Property defined—Rule. 3111. Property seizable on search warrant—Rule. [3112. Repealed.] 3113. Liquor violations in Indian country. 3114. Return of seized property and suppression of evidence; motion—Rule. 3115. Inventory upon execution and return of search warrant—Rule. 3116. Records of examining magistrate judge; return to clerk of court—Rule. 3117. Mobile tracking devices. 3118. Implied consent for certain tests.

Codification

Pub. L. 90–351enacted section 3103a of this title as part of chapter 204, and Pub. L. 90–462, § 3,Aug. 8, 1968, 82 Stat. 638, corrected the chapter designation from 204 to 205.

Amendments

1990—Pub. L. 101–647, title XXXV, § 3573(d),Nov. 29, 1990, 104 Stat. 4929, struck out item 3112 “Search warrants for seizure of animals, birds, or eggs” and renumbered item 3117, “Implied consent for certain tests”, as 3118.

1988—Pub. L. 100–690, title VI, § 6477(b)(2),Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4381, added item 3117 “Implied consent for certain tests”.

1986—Pub. L. 99–508, title I, § 108(b),Oct. 21, 1986, 100 Stat. 1858, added item 3117 “Mobile tracking devices”.

1968—Pub. L. 90–351, title IX, § 1401(b),June 19, 1968, 82 Stat. 238, added item 3103a.

Change of Name

Words “magistrate judge” substituted for “magistrate” in item 3116 pursuant to section 321 ofPub. L. 101–650, set out as a note under section 631 of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure.

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