                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                             PART I--CRIMES
 
              CHAPTER 42--EXTORTIONATE CREDIT TRANSACTIONS
 
Sec. 896. Effect on State laws

    This chapter does not preempt any field of law with respect to which 
State legislation would be permissible in the absence of this chapter. 
No law of any State which would be valid in the absence of this chapter 
may be held invalid or inapplicable by virtue of the existence of this 
chapter, and no officer, agency, or instrumentality of any State may be 
deprived by virtue of this chapter of any jurisdiction over any offense 
over which it would have jurisdiction in the absence of this chapter.

(Added Pub. L. 90-321, title II, Sec. 202(a), May 29, 1968, 82 Stat. 
162.)
