---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 3194"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "3194"
heading: "Transportation of fugitive by receiving agent"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/3194"
units:
  - "Part II — Criminal Procedure"
  - "Chapter 209 — Extradition"
---

# §3194. Transportation of fugitive by receiving agent


Any agent appointed as provided in [section 3182 of this title](/usc/18/3182.md) who receives the fugitive into his custody is empowered to transport him to the [State](/usc/18/3077.md?p=5) or Territory from which he has fled.


## Source credit

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 825.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 663 (R.S. § 5279).

Last sentence of said section 663, relating to rescue of such fugitive, was omitted as covered by section 752 of this title, the punishment provision of which is based on later statutes. (See reviser’s note under that section.)

Minor changes were made in phraseology.