{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/s39","title_num":"18","num":"§ 39.","heading":"Traffic signal preemption transmitters","status":null,"guid":"idbb4b8fb5-4aa6-11eb-bce4-d6beeb6aa2d0","source_credit":"(Added Pub. L. 109–59, title II, § 2018(a), Aug. 10, 2005, 119 Stat. 1542.)","seq_in_title":34,"parent_identifier":"/us/usc/t18/ptI/ch2","ancestors":[{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18","level":"title","num":"Title 18—","heading":"CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/ptI","level":"part","num":"PART I—","heading":"CRIMES","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/ptI/ch2","level":"chapter","num":"CHAPTER 2—","heading":"AIRCRAFT AND MOTOR VEHICLES","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=\"id7438ec69-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t18/s39\"><num value=\"39\">§ 39.</num><heading> Traffic signal preemption transmitters</heading><subsection style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\" id=\"id7438ec6a-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t18/s39/a\"><num value=\"a\">(a)</num><heading> <inline class=\"small-caps\">Offenses.—</inline></heading><paragraph style=\"-uslm-lc:I12\" class=\"indent1\" id=\"id7438ec6b-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t18/s39/a/1\"><num value=\"1\">(1)</num><heading> <inline class=\"small-caps\">Sale</inline>.—</heading><content>Whoever, in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, knowingly sells a traffic signal preemption transmitter to a nonqualifying user shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.</content>\n</paragraph>\n<paragraph style=\"-uslm-lc:I12\" class=\"indent1\" id=\"id7438ec6c-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t18/s39/a/2\"><num value=\"2\">(2)</num><heading> <inline class=\"small-caps\">Use</inline>.—</heading><content>Whoever, in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, being a nonqualifying user makes unauthorized use of a traffic signal preemption transmitter shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned not more than 6 months, or both.</content>\n</paragraph>\n</subsection>\n<subsection style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\" id=\"id7438ec6d-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t18/s39/b\"><num value=\"b\">(b)</num><heading> <inline class=\"small-caps\">Definitions</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In this section, the following definitions apply:</chapeau><paragraph style=\"-uslm-lc:I12\" class=\"indent1\" id=\"id7438ec6e-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t18/s39/b/1\"><num value=\"1\">(1)</num><heading> <inline class=\"small-caps\">Traffic signal preemption transmitter</inline>.—</heading><content>The term “traffic signal preemption transmitter” means any mechanism that can change or alter a traffic signal’s phase time or sequence.</content>\n</paragraph>\n<paragraph style=\"-uslm-lc:I12\" class=\"indent1\" id=\"id7438ec6f-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t18/s39/b/2\"><num value=\"2\">(2)</num><heading> <inline class=\"small-caps\">Nonqualifying user</inline>.—</heading><content>The term “nonqualifying user” means a person who uses a traffic signal preemption transmitter and is not acting on behalf of a public agency or private corporation authorized by law to provide fire protection, law enforcement, emergency medical services, transit services, maintenance, or other services for a Federal, State, or local government entity, but does not include a person using a traffic signal preemption transmitter for classroom or instructional purposes.</content>\n</paragraph>\n</subsection>\n<sourceCredit id=\"id7438ec70-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\">(Added <ref href=\"/us/pl/109/59/tII/s2018/a\">Pub. L. 109–59, title II, § 2018(a)</ref>, <date date=\"2005-08-10\">Aug. 10, 2005</date>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/119/1542\">119 Stat. 1542</ref>.)</sourceCredit>\n<notes type=\"uscNote\" id=\"id7438ec71-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\">\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" role=\"crossHeading\" topic=\"editorialNotes\" id=\"id7438ec72-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\"><heading class=\"centered\"><b>Editorial Notes</b></heading></note>\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I76\" topic=\"codification\" id=\"id7438ec73-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\"><heading class=\"centered smallCaps\">Codification</heading>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">Another section 39 was renumbered <ref href=\"/us/usc/t18/s40\">section 40 of this title</ref>.</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":"116-214","currency_date":"2020-12-05","congress":116,"law_num":214,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":218,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["02","09","11a","15","16","18","18a","20","21","22","28a","31","37","38","39","40","41","51","52","54"],"ingested_titles":[]},"is_exact":true,"note":null}