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type: "LegalText"
title: "34 U.S.C. § 20918"
description: "Periodic in person verification"
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title_number: 34
title_name: "CRIME CONTROL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT"
chapter_number: "209"
chapter_name: "CHILD PROTECTION AND SAFETY"
section: "20918"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 20918"
status: "current"
release_point: "119-100"
release_date: "2026-06-26"
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# 34 U.S.C. § 20918 - Periodic in person verification

## Text

A sex offender shall appear in person, allow the jurisdiction to take a current photograph, and verify the information in each registry in which that offender is required to be registered not less frequently than—

(1) each year, if the offender is a tier I sex offender;

(2) every 6 months, if the offender is a tier II sex offender; and

(3) every 3 months, if the offender is a tier III sex offender.

(Pub. L. 109–248, title I, § 116, July 27, 2006, 120 Stat. 595.)

## Notes

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 16916 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.