Pub. L. 92-539, tit. II, sec. 201

Sec. 201. Section 1201 of title 18, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: “§ 1201. Kidnaping “(a) Whoever unlawfully seizes, confines, inveigles, decoys, kidnaps, abducts, or carries away and holds for ransom or reward or otherwise any person, except in the case of a minor by the parent thereof, when: “(1) the person is willfully transported in interstate or foreign commerce; “(2) any such act against the person is done within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States; “(3) any such act against the person is done within the special aircraft, jurisdiction of the United States as defined in section 101 (32) of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958, as amended (49 U.S.C. 1301(32)); or “(4) the person is a foreign official as defined in section 1116(b) or an official guest as defined in section 1116(c) (4) of this title, shall be punished by imprisonment for any term of years or for life. “(b) With respect to subsection (a) (1), above, the failure to release the victim within twenty-four hours after he shall have been unlawfully seized, confined, inveigled, decoyed, kidnaped, abducted, or carried away shall create a rebuttable presumption that such person has been transported in interstate or foreign commerce. “(c) If two or more persons conspire to violate this section and one or more of such persons do any overt act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each shall be punished by imprisonment for any term of years or for life.”