---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 U.S.C. § 856"
title: "50"
title_heading: "War and National Defense"
number: "856"
heading: "Continuing offense"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/50/856"
units:
  - "Chapter 23 — Internal Security"
  - "Subchapter V — Registration of Certain Persons Trained in Foreign Espionage Systems"
---

# §856. Continuing offense


Failure to file a registration statement as required by this subchapter is a continuing offense for as long as such failure exists, notwithstanding any statute of limitation or other statute to the contrary.


## Source credit

(Aug. 1, 1956, ch. 849, § 7, 70 Stat. 900.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was not enacted as part of the Internal Security Act of 1950 which comprises subchapters I to III of this chapter.