---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 3528"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "3528"
heading: "Definition"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/3528"
units:
  - "Part II — Criminal Procedure"
  - "Chapter 224 — Protection of Witnesses"
---

# §3528. Definition


For purposes of this chapter, the term “State” means each of the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and any territory or possession of the [United States](/usc/18/5.md).


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 98–473, title II, § 1208, Oct. 12, 1984, 98 Stat. 2163.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 1984, see section 1210 of Pub. L. 98–473, set out as a note under section 3521 of this title.