---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 U.S.C. § 538"
title: "28"
title_heading: "Judiciary and Judicial Procedure"
number: "538"
heading: "Investigation of aircraft piracy and related violations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/28/538"
units:
  - "Part II — Department of Justice"
  - "Chapter 33 — Federal Bureau of Investigation"
---

# §538. Investigation of aircraft piracy and related violations


The Federal Bureau of Investigation shall investigate any violation of section 46314 or chapter 465 of title 49.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 103–272, § 4(e)(1), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 1361.)