---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 U.S.C. § 796"
title: "50"
title_heading: "War and National Defense"
number: "796"
heading: "Effect of subchapter on other criminal laws"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/50/796"
units:
  - "Chapter 23 — Internal Security"
  - "Subchapter I — Control of Subversive Activities"
---

# §796. Effect of subchapter on other criminal laws


The foregoing provisions of this subchapter shall be construed as being in addition to and not in modification of existing criminal statutes.


## Source credit

(Sept. 23, 1950, ch. 1024, title I, § 17, 64 Stat. 1003.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This subchapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this title”, meaning title I of act Sept. 23, 1950, ch. 1024, 64 Stat. 987, known as the Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950, which is classified principally to this subchapter. For complete classification of title I of such act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 781 of this title and Tables.