18 U.S.C. § 1992 : US Code - Section 1992: Wrecking trains

Search 18 U.S.C. § 1992 : US Code - Section 1992: Wrecking trains

(a) Whoever willfully derails, disables, or wrecks any train,
engine, motor unit, or car used, operated, or employed in
interstate or foreign commerce by any railroad; or
Whoever willfully sets fire to, or places any explosive substance
on or near, or undermines any tunnel, bridge, viaduct, trestle,
track, signal, station, depot, warehouse, terminal, or any other
way, structure, property, or appurtenance used in the operation of
any such railroad in interstate or foreign commerce, or otherwise
makes any such tunnel, bridge, viaduct, trestle, track, signal,
station, depot, warehouse, terminal, or any other way, structure,
property, or appurtenance unworkable or unusable or hazardous to
work or use, with the intent to derail, disable, or wreck a train,
engine, motor unit, or car used, operated, or employed in
interstate or foreign commerce; or
Whoever willfully attempts to do any of the aforesaid acts or
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Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than
twenty years, or both.
(b) Whoever is convicted of a violation of subsection (a) that
has resulted in the death of any person, shall be subject also to
the death penalty or to imprisonment for life.
Whoever is convicted of any such violation involving a train
that, at the time the violation occurred, carried high-level
radioactive waste (as that term is defined in section 2(12) of the
Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (42 U.S.C. 10101(12))) or spent
nuclear fuel (as that term is defined in section 2(23) of the
Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (42 U.S.C. 10101(23))), shall be
fined under this title and imprisoned for any term of years not
less than 30, or for life.
(c) A person who conspires to commit any offense defined in this
section shall be subject to the same penalties (other than the
penalty of death) as the penalties prescribed for the offense, the
commission of which was the object of the conspiracy.