{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/s3109","title_num":"18","num":"§ 3109.","heading":"Breaking doors or windows for entry or exit","status":null,"guid":"idbe59931f-4aa6-11eb-bce4-d6beeb6aa2d0","source_credit":"(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 820.)","seq_in_title":1007,"parent_identifier":"/us/usc/t18/ptII/ch205","ancestors":[{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18","level":"title","num":"Title 18—","heading":"CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/ptII","level":"part","num":"PART II—","heading":"CRIMINAL PROCEDURE","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/ptII/ch205","level":"chapter","num":"CHAPTER 205—","heading":"SEARCHES AND SEIZURES","status":null,"is_section":false}],"xml":"<section xmlns=\"http://xml.house.gov/schemas/uslm/1.0\" xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" xmlns:dcterms=\"http://purl.org/dc/terms/\" style=\"-uslm-lc:I80\" id=\"id849d2668-4631-11e3-82e4-c7c00c991bd6\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t18/s3109\"><num value=\"3109\">§ 3109.</num><heading> Breaking doors or windows for entry or exit</heading><content>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\">The officer may break open any outer or inner door or window of a house, or any part of a house, or anything therein, to execute a search warrant, if, after notice of his authority and purpose, he is refused admittance or when necessary to liberate himself or a person aiding him in the execution of the warrant.</p>\n</content><sourceCredit id=\"id849d2669-4631-11e3-82e4-c7c00c991bd6\">(<ref href=\"/us/act/1948-06-25/ch645\">June 25, 1948, ch. 645</ref>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/62/820\">62 Stat. 820</ref>.)</sourceCredit>\n<notes type=\"uscNote\" id=\"id849d266a-4631-11e3-82e4-c7c00c991bd6\">\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" topic=\"historicalAndRevision\" id=\"id849d266b-4631-11e3-82e4-c7c00c991bd6\"><heading class=\"centered smallCaps\">Historical and Revision Notes</heading><p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., §§ 618, 619 (<ref href=\"/us/act/1917-06-15/ch30\">June 15, 1917, ch. 30</ref>, title XI, §§ 8, 9, <ref href=\"/us/stat/40/229\">40 Stat. 229</ref>).</p>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">Said sections 618 and 619 were consolidated with minor changes in phraseology but without change of substance.</p>\n</note>\n</notes>\n</section>","provision":null,"duplicates":[],"release":{"label":"116-252","currency_date":"2020-12-22","congress":116,"law_num":252,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":222,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["18","20","31","34","40","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"served_from":{"label":"116-252","currency_date":"2020-12-22","congress":116,"law_num":252,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":222,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["18","20","31","34","40","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"content_first_seen":{"label":"113-47","currency_date":"2013-10-31","congress":113,"law_num":47,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":6,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["18","31"],"ingested_titles":[]},"is_exact":true,"note":null}