---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 3105"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "3105"
heading: "Persons authorized to serve search warrant"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/3105"
units:
  - "Part II — Criminal Procedure"
  - "Chapter 205 — Searches and Seizures"
---

# §3105. Persons authorized to serve search warrant


A search warrant may in all cases be served by any of the [officers](/usc/18/202.md?p=c) mentioned in its direction or by an [officer](/usc/18/202.md?p=c) authorized by law to serve such warrant, but by no other person, except in aid of the [officer](/usc/18/202.md?p=c) on his requiring it, he being present and acting in its execution.


## Source credit

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 819.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 617 (June 15, 1917, ch. 30, title XI, § 7, 40 Stat. 229).

Minor change was made in phraseology.