                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                             PART I--CRIMES
 
                 CHAPTER 2--AIRCRAFT AND MOTOR VEHICLES
 
Sec. 33. Destruction of motor vehicles or motor vehicle 
        facilities
        
    (a) Whoever willfully, with intent to endanger the safety of any 
person on board or anyone who he believes will board the same, or with a 
reckless disregard for the safety of human life, damages, disables, 
destroys, tampers with, or places or causes to be placed any explosive 
or other destructive substance in, upon, or in proximity to, any motor 
vehicle which is used, operated, or employed in interstate or foreign 
commerce, or its cargo or material used or intended to be used in 
connection with its operation; or
    Whoever willfully, with like intent, damages, disables, destroys, 
sets fire to, tampers with, or places or causes to be placed any 
explosive or other destructive substance in, upon, or in proximity to 
any garage, terminal, structure, supply, or facility used in the 
operation of, or in support of the operation of, motor vehicles engaged 
in interstate or foreign commerce or otherwise makes or causes such 
property to be made unworkable, unusable, or hazardous to work or use; 
or
    Whoever, with like intent, willfully disables or incapacitates any 
driver or person employed in connection with the operation or 
maintenance of the motor vehicle, or in any way lessens the ability of 
such person to perform his duties as such; or
    Whoever willfully attempts to do any of the aforesaid acts--
    shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty 
    years, or both.

    (b) Whoever is convicted of a violation of subsection (a) involving 
a motor vehicle that, at the time the violation occurred, carried high-
level radioactive waste (as that term is defined in section 2(12) of the 
Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (42 U.S.C. 10101(12))) or spent nuclear 
fuel (as that term is defined in section 2(23) of the Nuclear Waste 
Policy Act of 1982 (42 U.S.C. 10101(23))), shall be fined under this 
title and imprisoned for any term of years not less than 30, or for 
life.

(Added July 14, 1956, ch. 595, Sec. 1, 70 Stat. 540; amended Pub. L. 
103-322, title XXXIII, Sec. 330016(1)(L), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 
2147; Pub. L. 104-88, title IV, Sec. 402(a), Dec. 29, 1995, 109 Stat. 
955.)


                               Amendments

    1995--Pub. L. 104-88 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) 
and added subsec. (b).
    1994--Pub. L. 103-322 substituted ``fined under this title'' for 
``fined not more than $10,000''.


                    Effective Date of 1995 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 104-88 effective Jan. 1, 1996, see section 2 of 
Pub. L. 104-88, set out as an Effective Date note under section 701 of 
Title 49, Transportation.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 2516, 3592 of this title.
