---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 3290"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "3290"
heading: "Fugitives from justice"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/3290"
units:
  - "Part II — Criminal Procedure"
  - "Chapter 213 — Limitations"
---

# §3290. Fugitives from justice


No statute of limitations shall extend to any person fleeing from justice.


## Source credit

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 829.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on Title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 583 (R.S. § 1045).

Said section 583 was rephrased and made applicable to all statutes of limitation and is merely declaratory of the generally accepted rule of law.