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Title 21 United States Code (USC) Controlled Substances Act
21 U.S.C.
United States Code, 2016 Edition
Title 21 - FOOD AND DRUGS
CHAPTER 13 - DRUG ABUSE PREVENTION AND CONTROL
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SUBCHAPTER I — CONTROL AND ENFORCEMENT
Part A — Introductory Provisions
Section 801. Congressional findings and declarations: controlled substances
Section 801a. Congressional findings and declarations: psychotropic substances
Part B — Authority to Control; Standards and Schedules
Section 811. Authority and criteria for classification of substances
Section 812. Schedules of controlled substances
Part C — Registration of Manufacturers, Distributors, and Dispensers of Controlled Substances
Section 821. Rules and regulations
Section 822. Persons required to register
Section 822a. Prescription drug take back expansion
Section 823. Registration requirements
Section 824. Denial, revocation, or suspension of registration
Section 825. Labeling and packaging
Section 826. Production quotas for controlled substances
Section 826a. Attorney General report on drug shortages
Section 827. Records and reports of registrants
Section 830. Regulation of listed chemicals and certain machines
Section 831. Additional requirements relating to online pharmacies and telemedicine
Part D — Offenses and Penalties
Section 841. Prohibited acts A
Section 842. Prohibited acts B
Section 843. Prohibited acts C
Section 844. Penalties for simple possession
Section 844a. Civil penalty for possession of small amounts of certain controlled substances
Sections 845 to 845b. Transferred
Section 846. Attempt and conspiracy
Section 847. Additional penalties
Section 848. Continuing criminal enterprise
Section 849. Transportation safety offenses
Section 850. Information for sentencing
Section 851. Proceedings to establish prior convictions
Section 852. Application of treaties and other international agreements
Section 853. Criminal forfeitures
Section 854. Investment of illicit drug profits
Section 856. Maintaining drug-involved premises
Section 858. Endangering human life while illegally manufacturing controlled substance
Section 859. Distribution to persons under age twenty-one
Section 860. Distribution or manufacturing in or near schools and colleges
Section 861. Employment or use of persons under 18 years of age in drug operations
Section 862. Denial of Federal benefits to drug traffickers and possessors
Section 862a. Denial of assistance and benefits for certain drug-related convictions
Section 862b. Sanctioning for testing positive for controlled substances
Section 863. Drug paraphernalia
Section 864. Anhydrous ammonia
Section 864a. Grants to reduce production of methamphetamines from anhydrous ammonia
Part E — Administrative and Enforcement Provisions
Section 871a. Semiannual reports to Congress
Section 872. Education and research programs of Attorney General
Section 872a. Public-private education program
Section 873. Cooperative arrangements
Section 874. Advisory committees
Section 875. Administrative hearings
Section 878. Powers of enforcement personnel
Section 880. Administrative inspections and warrants
Sections 881–1, 881a. Transferred
Section 883. Enforcement proceedings
Section 884. Immunity and privilege
Section 885. Burden of proof; liabilities
Section 886. Payments and advances
Section 886a. Diversion Control Fee Account
Section 887. Coordination and consolidation of post-seizure administration
Section 889. Production control of controlled substances
Section 890. Review of Federal sales of chemicals usable to manufacture controlled substances
Part F — General Provisions
Codification
The letter designation for this Part F was, in the original, Part G. The original Part F of title II of Pub. L. 91–513, consisting of section 601 thereof, is set out as a note under section 801 of this title. The original Part G of title II of Pub. L. 91–513 consisted of sections 701 to 709. Sections 701 to 705 amended and repealed sections in this title and in Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure, and Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, and enacted provisions set out as notes under sections 321, 801, and 822 of this title. See Tables for classifications of said sections 701 to 705. Sections 706 to 709 of Pub. L. 91–513 are set out as sections 901 to 904 of this title and, for purposes of codification, comprise this Part F.
Section 902. Savings provisions
SUBCHAPTER II — IMPORT AND EXPORT
Codification
This subchapter is comprised of Part A of title III of Pub. L. 91–513, Oct. 27, 1970, 84 Stat. 1285. Part B of title III contains amendatory, repealing, and transitional provisions generally classified elsewhere.
Section 952. Importation of controlled substances
Section 953. Exportation of controlled substances
Section 954. Transshipment and in-transit shipment of controlled substances
Section 955. Possession on board vessels, etc., arriving in or departing from United States
Section 955a to 955d. Transferred
Section 956. Exemption authority
Section 957. Persons required to register
Section 958. Registration requirements
Section 959. Possession, manufacture, or distribution of controlled substance
Section 960. Prohibited acts A
Section 960a. Foreign terrorist organizations, terrorist persons and groups
Section 961. Prohibited acts B
Section 962. Second or subsequent offenses
Section 963. Attempt and conspiracy
Section 964. Additional penalties
Section 965. Applicability of part E of subchapter I
Section 966. Authority of Secretary of the Treasury
Section 968. Service of subpena; proof of service
Section 969. Contempt proceedings
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