---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 2198"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "2198"
heading: "Repealed. Pub. L. 101–647, title XII, § 1207(b), Nov. 29, 1990, 104 Stat. 4832"
status: "repealed"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/2198"
units:
  - "Part I — Crimes"
  - "Chapter 107 — Seamen and Stowaways"
---

# [§2198. Repealed. Pub. L. 101–647, title XII, § 1207(b), Nov. 29, 1990, 104 Stat. 4832 — repealed]



## Notes

Section, act June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 802, related to penalties for seducing a female passenger on an American vessel by employees of the vessel.