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[CITE: 42USC2278]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
          CHAPTER 23--DEVELOPMENT AND CONTROL OF ATOMIC ENERGY
 
                        Division A--Atomic Energy
 
                 SUBCHAPTER XVII--ENFORCEMENT OF CHAPTER
 
Sec. 2278. Statute of limitations

    Except for a capital offense, no individual or person shall be 
prosecuted, tried, or punished for any offense prescribed or defined in 
sections 2274 to 2276 of this title unless the indictment is found or 
the information is instituted within ten years next after such offense 
shall have been committed.

(Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724, title I, Sec. 228, as added Aug. 30, 1954, ch. 
1073, Sec. 1, 68 Stat. 959; renumbered title I, Pub. L. 102-486, title 
IX, Sec. 902(a)(8), Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 2944.)

                          Transfer of Functions

    Atomic Energy Commission abolished and functions transferred by 
sections 5814 and 5841 of this title. See also Transfer of Functions 
notes set out under those sections.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 2279 of this title.
