---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 784"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "784"
heading: "Jurisdiction of prosecutions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/784"
units:
  - "Chapter 11 — Regulation of Landing, Curing, and Sale of Sponges Taken from Gulf of Mexico and Straits of Florida"
---

# §784. Jurisdiction of prosecutions


Any [violation](/usc/16/620e.md?p=11) of the provisions of this chapter shall be prosecuted in the district court of the United States of the district wherein the offender is found or into which he is first brought.


## Source credit

(Aug. 15, 1914, ch. 253, § 4, 38 Stat. 692.)