---
kind: "unit"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
key: "ptII/ch205"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 205"
heading: "Searches and Seizures"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/ptII-ch205"
sections_count: 19
---

# Chapter 205 — Searches and Seizures

Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Part II — Criminal Procedure

## Sections

- [§3101. Effect of rules of court—(Rule)](/usc/18/3101.md)
- [§3102. Authority to issue search warrant—(Rule)](/usc/18/3102.md)
- [§3103. Grounds for issuing search warrant—(Rule)](/usc/18/3103.md)
- [§3103a. Additional grounds for issuing warrant](/usc/18/3103a.md)
- [§3104. Issuance of search warrant; contents—(Rule)](/usc/18/3104.md)
- [§3105. Persons authorized to serve search warrant](/usc/18/3105.md)
- [§3106. Officer authorized to serve search warrant—(Rule)](/usc/18/3106.md)
- [§3107. Service of warrants and seizures by Federal Bureau of Investigation](/usc/18/3107.md)
- [§3108. Execution, service, and return—(Rule)](/usc/18/3108.md)
- [§3109. Breaking doors or windows for entry or exit](/usc/18/3109.md)
- [§3110. Property defined—(Rule)](/usc/18/3110.md)
- [§3111. Property seizable on search warrant—(Rule)](/usc/18/3111.md)
- [§3112. Repealed.](/usc/18/3112.md)
- [§3113. Liquor violations in Indian country](/usc/18/3113.md)
- [§3114. Return of seized property and suppression of evidence; motion—(Rule)](/usc/18/3114.md)
- [§3115. Inventory upon execution and return of search warrant—(Rule)](/usc/18/3115.md)
- [§3116. Records of examining magistrate judge; return to clerk of court—(Rule)](/usc/18/3116.md)
- [§3117. Mobile tracking devices](/usc/18/3117.md)
- [§3118. Implied consent for certain tests](/usc/18/3118.md)