§ 468. Offering or giving bribe to witness Whoever: (1) gives, offers, or promises to give, to a witness or person about to be called as a witness, a bribe, upon an understanding or agreement that the testimony of the witness shall be thereby influenced; or (2) attempts by any other means fraudulently to induce a person to give false or withhold true testimony shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned in the penitentiary rot more than five years, or both. § 469. Solicitation or acceptance of bribe by witness Whoever, being a witness, or being about to become a witness, receives or offers to receive a bribe, upon an understanding or agreement that: (1) his testimony shall be influenced thereby; or (2) he will absent himself from the trial, proceeding, hearing, or inquiry upon which his testimony is required shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than five years, or both. CHAPTER 23-BURGLARY Sec. 501. Definition of nighttime. 502. Burglary generally. 503. Burglary in the first degree. 504. Burglary in the second degree. 505. Burglary with explosives. 506. Unlawful entry. 507. Possessing or making burglarious or other instruments. § 501. Definition of nighttime As used in this chapter, "nighttime" means the period between sunset and sunrise. § 502. Burglary generally Whoever, with intent to commit grand or petit larceny, or a felony, enters a house, room, apartment, tenement, shop, warehouse, store, barn, stable, outhouse, or other building, tent, vessel, railroad car, aircraft, or vehicle when the doors of the vehicle are locked, is guilty of burglary. § 503. Burglary in the first degree (a) Whoever: (1) commits a burglary in the nighttime; or (2) whether in the daytime or nighttime: (A) commits a burglary while armed with a dangerous weapon; or (B) while committing a burglary, arms himself with a dangerous weapon or assaults a person is guilty of burglary in the first degree, and shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than 15 years. (b) Subsection (a) of this section does not apply to burglary with explosives as defined by section 505 of this title. § 504. Burglary in the second degree Whoever commits a burglary in the daytime in circumstances not amounting to burglary in the first degree or to burglary with explosives, is guilty of burglary in the second degree, and shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than five years. § 505. Burglary with explosives Whoever, with intent to commit an offense, enters, whether in the daytime or nighttime, an inhabited or uninhabited house or building, or any part thereof, and opens or attempts to open a vault, safe, or other secure place by the use of acetylene torch or electric arc, or nitroglycerine, dynamite, gunpowder, or any other explosive, is guilty of burglary with explosives, and shall be imprisoned in the penítentiary not more than 25 years. § 506. Unlawful entry Whoever, in circumstances or in a manner not amounting to a burglary, enters a house or building, or a part thereof, with intent to commit an offense, shall be imprisoned in jail not more than one year. 8 507. Possessing or making burglarious or other instruments (a) Whoever: (1) has upon him or in his possession a picklock, crow, key, bit or other instrument or tool with intent feloniously to break or enter into any building; (2) knowingly makes or alters a key or other instrument above named, so that the same will fit or open the lock of a building, without being requested so to do by a person having the right to open the same; or (3) makes, alters or repairs any instrument or thing, knowing or having reason to believe that it is intended to be used in committing an offense shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned in jail not more than 30 days, or both. (b) Any structure referred to by section 502 of this title is a building within the meaning of subsection (a) of this section. CHAPTER 25—CHILDREN Bec. 541. Abuse or abandonment of child. 542. Permitting children to beg or engage in wandering business. 543. Carnal abuse of children. § 541. Abuse or abandonment of child Whoever : (1) tortures, cruelly beats, abuses, willfully maltreats or unnecessarily deprives of liberty a child under the age of 18 years; or (2) having custody or possession of a child under the age of 14 years, exposes it in any place with intent to abandon itshall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned in jail not more than 30 days, or both. § 542. Permitting children to beg or engage in wandering business Whoever : (1) being a parent, relative, guardian, employer or otherwise and having in his care, custody or control a child under the age of 12 years, sells, apprentices, gives away, lets out, or otherwise disposes of the child to a person, under any name, title or pretense, for the vocation, use, occupation, calling or service of begging or peddling in a public street or highway, or in any mendicant or wandering business whatsoever; or (2) takes, receives, hires, employs, uses, or has in custody a child for any of such purposes shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned in jail not more than 30 days, or both. § 543. Carnal abuse of children Whoever willfully commits a lewd or lascivious act including any of the acts constituting other offenses for which punishment is provided for in this title upon or with the body, or any part or member thereof, of a child under the age of 13 years, with the intent or arousing, appealing to, or gratifying, the lust, passions, or sexual desires of himself or the child, shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than 10 years. Sec. CHAPTER 27-CIVIL RIGHTS 571. Refusal of innkeepers and carriers to receive guests and passengers. § 571. Refusal of innkeepers and carriers to receive guests and passengers Whoever, in carrying on business as an innkeeper or as a common carrier, or, in acting as an agent or officer of a corporation carrying on such a business, refuses, without just cause or excuse, to receive and entertain any guest, or to receive and carry any passenger, shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned in jail not more than 30 days, or both. CHAPTER 29-COMPOUNDING CRIME Sec. 601. Punishment for compounding crime. § 601. Punishment for compounding crime Whoever, having knowledge of the commission of a crime, takes money or property of another person, or a gratuity or reward, or an engagement or promise therefor, upon an agreement or understanding, express or implied, to compound or conceal the crime or to abstain from a prosecution thereof, or to withhold any evidence thereof, except in a case where, as provided by law, a crime may be compromised by leave of court, shall: Sec. (1) if the agreement or understanding relates to a crime punishable by death, be imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than five years; (2) if the agreement or understanding relates to any other felony, be imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than three years; or (3) if the agreement or understanding relates to a misdemeanor, be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned in jail not more than 30 days, or both. CHAPTER 31-CONSPIRACY 631. Acts constituting conspiracy; punishment. 632. Necessity for overt act; exceptions; pleading and proof. § 631. Acts constituting conspiracy; punishment If two or more persons conspire: (1) to commit a crime; (2) falsely and maliciously to present another for a crime, or to procure another to be charged or arrested for a crime; (3) falsely to move or maintain a suit, action, or proceeding; (4) to cheat and defraud a person of property by means which are in themselves criminal, or to obtain money or property by false pretenses; or (5) to commit an act injurious to the public health, the public morals, or to pervert or obstruct justice or due administration of the laws each of them shall, except as otherwise provided in this section, be punished by a fine of not more than $5,000, or by imprisonment in jail for not more than one year or in the penitentiary for not more than three years, or by both such fine and imprisonment. If the conspiracy is to commit a felony for which the maximum penalty of imprisonment in the penitentiary is greater than three years, each conspirator shall be punished in the same manner and to the same extent as is provided for punishment of the felony. If the felony is one for which different punishments are prescribed for different degrees, the jury or court shall determine the degree of the felony which the defendants conspired to commit. If the degree is not so determined, the punishment for conspiracy to commit the felony shall be that prescribed for the lesser degree. If the conspiracy is to commit two or more felonies which have different punishments, the punishment for the conspiracy shall be that prescribed for the felony which has the greater maximum term. 8 632. Necessity for overt act; exceptions; pleading and proof (a) An agreement, except to commit a felony upon the person of another or to commit arson or burglary, does not amount to conspiracy unless an act beside the agreement is done to effect the object thereof by one or more of the parties to the agreement. (b) Upon a trial for conspiracy, where an overt act is necessary to constitute the offense, the defendant may not be convicted unless one or more overt acts are expressly alleged in the information, nor unless one of the acts alleged is proved; but other overt acts not alleged, but connected with the offense charged, may be given in evidence. Sec. CHAPTER 33-CONTEMPTS 661. Power of courts to punish for contempt. 662. Contempts constituting crimes; limitations. 663. Jury trial of contempts charged under section 662. § 661. Power of courts to punish for contempt Each court may punish, by fine or imprisonment in jail or in the penitentiary, at its discretion, such contempt of its authority as: (1) misbehavior of a person in its presence or so near thereto as to obstruct the administration of justice; (2) misbehavior of any of its officers in their official transactions; or (3) disobedience or resistance to its lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree, or command. § 662. Contempts constituting crimes; limitations (a) Whoever willfully disobeys a lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree, or command of a court of the Canal Zone by doing an act therein, or thereby forbidden, if the act or thing done be of such character as to constitute also a criminal offense under a statute of the United States, or under this Code, shall be punished by fine or imprisonment in jail, or both. (b) A fine imposed pursuant to subsection (a) of this section shall be paid into court and disposed of in the same manner as other fines are disposed of, or shall be paid to the complainant or other party injured by the act constituting the contempt, or may, where more than one is damaged, be divided or apportioned among them, as the court directs. (c) If the accused is a natural person, and if the fine imposed upon him by the district court is not to be paid to the complainant or other party injured by the act constituting the contempt, the fine may not exceed the sum of $1,000; and the imprisonment imposed by the district court under this section may not exceed the term of 180 days. (d) A magistrate's court may not impose a fine in excess of $100, or impose a term of imprisonment in excess of 30 days in any case under subsections (a) and (b) of this section. (e) Subsections (a), (b) and (c) of this section do not apply to contempts committed in the presence of the court, or so near thereto as to obstruct the administration of justice, nor to contempts committed in disobedience of a lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree, or command entered in any suit or action brought or prosecuted in the name of, or on behalf of, the United States or the Government of the Canal Zone, but the same, and all other cases of contempt not specifically embraced by this section may be punished in conformity with the prevailing usages at law. (f) A proceeding for contempt within this section may not be instituted against a person, corporation or association unless it is begun within one year from the date of the act complained of; nor is such proceeding a bar to a criminal prosecution for the same act. a § 663. Jury trial of contempts charged under section 662 Whenever a contempt is charged under section 662 of this title, and the criminal offense referred to by subsection (a) of that section is one in the trial of which the accused would be entitled by existing law to a trial by jury, and the contempt is prosecuted in the district court, the accused, upon demand therefor, is entitled to trial by jury, which shall conform as near as may be with the practice in other criminal cases. Sec. CHAPTER 35—CONTRACTS 691. Interested persons acting as Government agents. § 691. Interested persons acting as Government agents Whoever, being an officer, agent or member of, or directly or indirectly interested in the pecuniary profits or contracts of, a corporation, joint stock company, association, firm or partnership, or other business entity, is employed or acts as an officer or agent of the United States, or an agency or instrumentality thereof, for the transaction of business with such business entity, shall be fined not more than $2,000 or imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than two years, or both. Sec. CHAPTER 37—CONVICTS 721. Importation of foreign convicts. § 721. Importation of foreign convicts Whoever, being a captain or master of a vessel, or other person, willfully imports, brings, or sends into the Canal Zone, a person who is: (1) a foreign convict of a crime which, if committed within the Canal Zone, would be a felony; or (2) sent to him from a prison or place of confinement in any place out of the Canal Zone shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than five years, or both; and every person so landing shall be punished in like manner. Sec. CHAPTER 39-CORPORATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS 751. Definition. 752. Fictitious or fraudulent subscriptions. 753. Exhibiting false records to public officer or examining board. 754. Unauthorized use of name in prospectus or advertisement. 755. Issuance of unauthorized shares. 756. Fraudulent dividend or distribution of assets. 757. Acceptance of deposits when bank insolvent. 758. Frauds in books, papers or securities. 759. False reports or statements; refusal to keep books or post notices. 760. Refusal to permit inspection of books by stockholders. 761. Presumption of director's knowledge as to illegality of act. 762. Status as foreign corporation as a defense. |