18 U.S.C. § 2261 : US Code - Section 2261: Interstate domestic violence

Search 18 U.S.C. § 2261 : US Code - Section 2261: Interstate domestic violence

(a) Offenses. -
(1) Travel or conduct of offender. - A person who travels in
interstate or foreign commerce or enters or leaves Indian country
or within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of
the United States with the intent to kill, injure, harass, or
intimidate a spouse, intimate partner, or dating partner, and
who, in the course of or as a result of such travel, commits or
attempts to commit a crime of violence against that spouse,
intimate partner, or dating partner, shall be punished as
provided in subsection (b).
(2) Causing travel of victim. - A person who causes a spouse,
intimate partner, or dating partner to travel in interstate or
foreign commerce or to enter or leave Indian country by force,
coercion, duress, or fraud, and who, in the course of, as a
result of, or to facilitate such conduct or travel, commits or
attempts to commit a crime of violence against that spouse,
intimate partner, or dating partner, shall be punished as
provided in subsection (b).
(b) Penalties. - A person who violates this section or section
2261A shall be fined under this title, imprisoned -
(1) for life or any term of years, if death of the victim
results;
(2) for not more than 20 years if permanent disfigurement or
life threatening bodily injury to the victim results;
(3) for not more than 10 years, if serious bodily injury to the
victim results or if the offender uses a dangerous weapon during
the offense;
(4) as provided for the applicable conduct under chapter 109A
if the offense would constitute an offense under chapter 109A
(without regard to whether the offense was committed in the
special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United
States or in a Federal prison); and
(5) for not more than 5 years, in any other case,
or both fined and imprisoned.
(6) Whoever commits the crime of stalking in violation of a
temporary or permanent civil or criminal injunction, restraining
order, no-contact order, or other order described in section 2266
of title 18, United States Code, shall be punished by
imprisonment for not less than 1 year.