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type: "LegalText"
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title: "18 U.S.C. § 668"
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description: "Theft of major artwork"
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kind: "code_section"
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title_number: 18
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title_name: "CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE"
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chapter_number: "31"
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chapter_name: "EMBEZZLEMENT AND THEFT"
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section: "668"
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citation: "18 U.S.C. § 668"
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# 18 U.S.C. § 668 - Theft of major artwork
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## Text
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(a) Definitions.— In this section—
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(1) “museum” means an organized and permanent institution, the activities of which affect interstate or foreign commerce, that—
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(A) is situated in the United States;
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(B) is established for an essentially educational or aesthetic purpose;
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(C) has a professional staff; and
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(D) owns, utilizes, and cares for tangible objects that are exhibited to the public on a regular schedule.
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(2) “object of cultural heritage” means an object that is—
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(A) over 100 years old and worth in excess of $5,000; or
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(B) worth at least $100,000.
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(b) Offenses.— A person who—
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(1) steals or obtains by fraud from the care, custody, or control of a museum any object of cultural heritage; or
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(2) knowing that an object of cultural heritage has been stolen or obtained by fraud, if in fact the object was stolen or obtained from the care, custody, or control of a museum (whether or not that fact is known to the person), receives, conceals, exhibits, or disposes of the object,
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shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both.
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(Added Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXII, § 320902(a), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2123; amended Pub. L. 104–294, title VI, § 604(b)(18), Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3507.)
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## Notes
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Editorial Notes
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Amendments1996—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 104–294 designated first and second pars. beginning with quotation mark as pars. (1) and (2), respectively, and made technical amendment to provisions appearing in original.
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Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
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Effective Date of 1996 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 104–294 effective Sept. 13, 1994, see section 604(d) of Pub. L. 104–294, set out as a note under section 13 of this title.
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