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    18 USC Sec. 702                                             01/05/2009

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    TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
    PART I - CRIMES
    CHAPTER 33 - EMBLEMS, INSIGNIA, AND NAMES

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    Sec. 702. Uniform of armed forces and Public Health Service

STATUTE

      Whoever, in any place within the jurisdiction of the United
    States or in the Canal Zone, without authority, wears the uniform
    or a distinctive part thereof or anything similar to a distinctive
    part of the uniform of any of the armed forces of the United
    States, Public Health Service or any auxiliary of such, shall be
    fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or
    both.

SOURCE

    (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 732; May 24, 1949, ch. 139, Sec.
    15(a), 63 Stat. 91; Pub. L. 103-322, title XXXIII, Sec.
    330016(1)(E), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2146.)

HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES

                                 1948 ACT
      Based on section 1393 of title 10, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Army and Air
    Force, and section 228 of title 42, U.S.C., 1940 ed., The Public
    Health and Welfare (June 3, 1916, ch. 134, Sec. 125, 39 Stat. 216
    (2d paragraph); July 1, 1944, ch. 373, Sec. 510, 58 Stat. 711).
      "Auxiliary of such" was inserted to extend protection to the
    uniforms of any auxiliary corps that may be established.
      Fine of "$250" was substituted for "$300" as being more consonant
    with the penalties provided for similar offenses in this chapter.
      Minor changes of phraseology also were made.
                                 1949 ACT
      This section [section 15] inserts "armed forces" in the catch
    line and text of section 702 of title 18, U.S.C., and thereby
    includes the Air Force which was formerly part of the Army. (See
    note to sec. 5 [of 1949 Act, set out in Legislative History note
    under section 244 of title 18]). Also, it incorporates in such
    section the provisions of act of April 15, 1948 (ch. 188, 62 Stat.
    172), which relates to this section as well as to section 1393 of
    title 10, U.S.C. (one of the sources of such sec. 701), as it
    existed at the time of the enactment of the revision of title 18
    and which was not incorporated in title 18 when the revision was
    enacted. In this connection specific reference to the Canal Zone,
    Guam, American Samoa, and the Virgin Islands, as contained in such
    act of April 15, 1948, were omitted as covered by the phrase, "in
    any place within the jurisdiction of the United States," as used in
    this amendment of such section 702 of title 18, U.S.C.

REFERENCES IN TEXT

      For definition of Canal Zone, referred to in text, see section
    3602(b) of Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse.

AMENDMENTS

      1994 - Pub. L. 103-322 substituted "fined under this title" for
    "fined not more than $250".
      1949 - Act May 24, 1949, inserted "armed forces" in lieu of
    enumerating specific branches in section catchline and text, and
    inserted "in any place within the jurisdiction of the United States
    or in the Canal Zone".

TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS

      Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare redesignated
    Secretary of Health and Human Services by Pub. L. 96-88, title V,
    Sec. 509(b), Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 695, which is classified to
    section 3508(b) of Title 20, Education.
      Functions of Public Health Service, Surgeon General of Public
    Health Service, and all other officers and employees of Public
    Health Service, and functions of all agencies of or in Public
    Health Service transferred to Secretary of Health, Education, and
    Welfare by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1966, eff. June 25, 1966, 31 F.R.
    8855, 80 Stat. 1610, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government
    Organization and Employees.