Within such reasonable distance of any military or naval camp, station, fort, post, yard, base, cantonment, training or mobilization place as the Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of the Navy, the Secretary of the Air Force, or any two or all of them shall determine to be needful to the efficiency, health, and welfare of the Army, the Navy, or the Air Force, and shall designate and publish in general orders or bulletins, whoever engages in prostitution or aids or abets prostitution or procures or solicits for purposes of prostitution, or keeps or sets up a house of ill fame, brothel, or bawdy house, or receives any person for purposes of lewdness, assignation, or prostitution into any vehicle, conveyance, place, structure, or building, or permits any person to remain for the purpose of lewdness, assignation, or prostitution in any vehicle, conveyance, place, structure, or building or leases or rents or contracts to lease or rent any vehicle, conveyance, place, structure or building, or part thereof, knowing or with good reason to know that it is intended to be used for any of the purposes herein prohibited shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
The Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force and the Federal Security Administrator shall take such steps as they deem necessary to suppress and prevent such violations thereof, and shall accept the cooperation of the authorities of States and their counties, districts, and other political subdivisions in carrying out the purpose of this section.
This section shall not be construed as conferring on the personnel of the Departments of the Army, Navy, or Air Force or the Federal Security Agency any authority to make criminal investigations, searches, seizures, or arrests of civilians charged with violations of this section.
Notes of Decisions
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cases, 1951–2013 · leading case:
Laird v. Tatum, 408 U.S. 1 (1972).
Laird v. Tatum, 408 U.S. 1 (1972).
· cites it 2× “It was thought necessary to pass an Act of Congress to give the armed services some limited power to control prostitution near military bases, and an Act of Congress was required to enable a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to testify before Congress: 18 U. S. C. § 1384 :…”
United States v. Donald Langley, 919 F.2d 926 (5th Cir. 1990).
· cites it 3× “1 On appeal, Langley challenges the district court’s determination of the most analogous federal offense, claiming that there is *928 no federal offense analogous at all to the relevant state offense, or, in the alternative, that 18 U.S.C. § 1384 is a more analogous federal…”
Esposito v. Adams, 700 F. Supp. 1470 (N.D. Ill. 1988).
“The magistrate held an extradition hearing on April 22 and 23, 1987, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1384 and Local General Rule 1.”
Mirta Rosa Valenzuela v. United States, 286 F.3d 1223 (11th Cir. 2002).
“” 18 U.S.C. § 1384 . If the evidence is sufficient, the judge certifies the extraditability of the individual in custody to the Secretary of State.”
Bamba v. Elwood, 252 F. Supp. 2d 195 (E.D. Pa. 2003).
“2003) (not precedential) (concluding that BIA’s interpretation that bank fraud statute 18 U.S.C. § 1384 , was aggravated felony if loss exceeded $10,000 was reasonable); Alaka, 225 F.”
In Re the Extradition of Trinidad, 754 F. Supp. 2d 1075 (N.D. Cal. 2010).
“18 U.S.C. § 1384 . The Secretary of State makes the ultimate decision regarding whether to surrender Trinidad to Latvia.”
Petersen v. United States, 191 F.2d 154 (9th Cir. 1951).
“…regulate by penal statUte certain uses of areas of private land adjacent to United States military reservations. See 18 U.S.C.A. § 1384 .”
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