18 U.S.C. § 2276
Breaking and entering vessel
Whoever, upon the high seas or on any other waters within the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States, and out of the jurisdiction of any particular State, breaks or enters any vessel with intent to commit any felony, or maliciously cuts, spoils, or destroys any cordage, cable, buoys, buoy rope, head fast, or other fast, fixed to the anchor or moorings belonging to any vessel, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1
case, 2004–2004 · leading case: United States v. Thomas Cameron Kincade
United States v. Thomas Cameron Kincade (2004)
“§ 2272 , and any non-owner of a boat who “maliciously cuts, spoils, or destroys any cordage, cable, buoys, buoy rope, head fast, or other fast, fixed to the anchor or moorings belonging to any vessel” will suffer a similar fate, 18 U.S.C. § 2276 ; of. 18 U.S.C. § 2281…”
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