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Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act
Enacted by
the 109th United States Congress
Citations
Public law
Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 109–374 (text) (PDF)
Statutes at Large
120 Stat. 2652
Codification
Acts amended
Animal Enterprise Protection Act of 1992 (Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 102–346)
Titles amended
Title 18
U.S.C. sections amended
18 U.S.C. § 43
Legislative history
Introduced in the Senate as S.3880 by Jim Inhofe (R–OK) on September 8, 2006
Passed the Senate on September 30, 2006 (unanimous consent)
Passed the House on November 13, 2006 (voice vote)
Signed into law by President George W. Bush on November 27, 2006
The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) of 2006 is a United States federal law (Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 109–374 (text) (PDF); 18 U.S.C. § 43) that prohibits any person from engaging in certain conduct "for the purpose of damaging or interfering with the operations of an animal enterprise."[1] The statute covers any act that either "damages or causes the loss of any real or personal property" or "places a person in reasonable fear" of injury.
^"United States Code: Title 18,43. Force, violence, and threats involving animal enterprises". Legal Information Institute. Cornell University Law School. Retrieved December 25, 2011.
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