---
kind: "section"
citation: "18A U.S.C. § 5"
title: "18a"
title_heading: "Unlawful Possession or Receipt of Firearms"
number: "5"
heading: "Enforcement and cooperation by courts, departments, agencies, officers, and employees of United States and District of Columbia"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18a/5"
units:
  - "Act — Interstate Agreement on Detainers"
---

# §5. Enforcement and cooperation by courts, departments, agencies, officers, and employees of United States and District of Columbia


All courts, departments, agencies, officers, and employees of the United States and of the District of Columbia are hereby directed to enforce the agreement on detainers and to cooperate with one another and with all party States in enforcing the agreement and effectuating its purpose.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–538, § 5, Dec. 9, 1970, 84 Stat. 1402.)