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[CITE: 21USC675]

 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
                       CHAPTER 12--MEAT INSPECTION
 
                   SUBCHAPTER IV--AUXILIARY PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 675. Assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain persons; 
        murder; protection of such persons
        
    Any person who forcibly assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, 
intimidates, or interferes with any person while engaged in or on 
account of the performance of his official duties under this chapter 
shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than three 
years, or both. Whoever, in the commission of any such acts, uses a 
deadly or dangerous weapon, shall be fined not more than $10,000 or 
imprisoned not more than ten years, or both. Whoever kills any person 
while engaged in or on account of the performance of his official duties 
under this chapter shall be punished as provided under sections 1111 and 
1114 of title 18.

(Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, title IV, Sec. 405, as added Pub. L. 90-201, 
Sec. 16, Dec. 15, 1967, 81 Stat. 599.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 159 of this title.
