CITE

    42 USC Sec. 2278                                            01/08/2008

EXPCITE

    TITLE 42 - THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
    CHAPTER 23 - DEVELOPMENT AND CONTROL OF ATOMIC ENERGY
    Division A - Atomic Energy
    SUBCHAPTER XVII - ENFORCEMENT OF CHAPTER

HEAD

    Sec. 2278. Statute of limitations

STATUTE

      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.

SOURCE

    (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.)