                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                             PART I--CRIMES
 
                    CHAPTER 107--SEAMEN AND STOWAWAYS
 
Sec. 2199. Stowaways on vessels or aircraft

    Whoever, without the consent of the owner, charterer, master, or 
person in command of any vessel, or aircraft, with intent to obtain 
transportation, boards, enters or secretes himself aboard such vessel or 
aircraft and is thereon at the time of departure of said vessel or 
aircraft from a port, harbor, wharf, airport or other place within the 
jurisdiction of the United States; or
    Whoever, with like intent, having boarded, entered or secreted 
himself aboard a vessel or aircraft at any place within or without the 
jurisdiction of the United States, remains aboard after the vessel or 
aircraft has left such place and is thereon at any place within the 
jurisdiction of the United States; or
    Whoever, with intent to obtain a ride or transportation, boards or 
enters any aircraft owned or operated by the United States without the 
consent of the person in command or other duly authorized officer or 
agent--
    Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one 
year, or both.
    The word ``aircraft'' as used in this section includes any 
contrivance for navigation or flight in the air.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 802; 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., Secs. 469-474 (June 11, 1940, 
ch. 326, Secs. 1-3, 54 Stat. 306; Mar. 4, 1944, ch. 82, Secs. 1-4, 58 
Stat. 111; Apr. 10, 1944, ch. 162, 58 Stat. 188).
    Sections consolidated and rewritten with changes of phraseology and 
substance.
    In section 469 of title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., the element of intent 
not to pay for transportation was omitted as unnecessary since the 
payment of transportation will invariably remove the stowaway from the 
operation of the section by purchasing the master's ``consent''.
    In section 472 of title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., the enumerations of 
State, Territory, Possession, District of Columbia, and The Canal Zone, 
was omitted as adequately covered by ``place within the jurisdiction of 
the United States.''
    The punishment provision is the same as in sections 470, 472, and 
473 of title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., but the fine is $500 more than the 
maximum fine provided by said section 469. There seemed no point, 
however, in preserving a differential in favor of the stowaway as 
against the aider and abettor of $500. The court can be trusted to 
exercise a wise discretion within the slightly larger limits provided by 
the revised section.
    The provision for punishment of aiders and abettors in section 470 
of title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., was omitted as unnecessary since they are 
punishable as principals by section 2 of this title.
    Sections 471 and 474 of title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., were omitted as 
obviously unnecessary.


                               Amendments

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

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 14 of this title.
