                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                             PART I--CRIMES
 
                    CHAPTER 107--SEAMEN AND STOWAWAYS
 
Sec. 2194. Shanghaiing sailors

    Whoever, with intent that any person shall perform service or labor 
of any kind on board of any vessel engaged in trade and commerce among 
the several States or with foreign nations, or on board of any vessel of 
the United States engaged in navigating the high seas or any navigable 
water of the United States, procures or induces, or attempts to procure 
or induce, another, by force or threats or by representations which he 
knows or believes to be untrue, or while the person so procured or 
induced is intoxicated or under the influence of any drug, to go on 
board of any such vessel, or to sign or in anywise enter into any 
agreement to go on board of any such vessel to perform service or labor 
thereon; or
    Whoever knowingly detains on board of any such vessel any person so 
procured or induced to go on board, or to enter into any agreement to go 
on board, by any means herein defined--
    Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one 
year, or both.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 800; Pub. L. 104-294, title VI, 
Sec. 601(a)(8), Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3498.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 144 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 
321, Sec. 82, 35 Stat. 1103).
    Reference to persons aiding or abetting was omitted as unnecessary 
as such persons are made principals by section 2 of this title.
    Minor changes were made in phraseology and arrangement.


                               Amendments

    1996--Pub. L. 104-294 substituted ``fined under this title'' for 
``fined not more than $1,000'' in last par.
