---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 U.S.C. § 675"
title: "21"
title_heading: "Food and Drugs"
number: "675"
heading: "Assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain persons; murder; protection of such persons"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/21/675"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Meat Inspection"
  - "Subchapter IV — Auxiliary Provisions"
---

# §675. Assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain persons; murder; protection of such persons


Any [person](/usc/21/379j–21.md?p=k-10) who forcibly assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, intimidates, or interferes with any [person](/usc/21/379j–21.md?p=k-10) while engaged in or on account of the performance of his official duties under this chapter shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than three years, or both. Whoever, in the commission of any such acts, uses a deadly or dangerous weapon, shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both. Whoever kills any [person](/usc/21/379j–21.md?p=k-10) while engaged in or on account of the performance of his official duties under this chapter shall be punished as provided under sections [1111](/usc/18/1111.md) and [1114](/usc/18/1114.md) of title 18.


## Source credit

(Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, title IV, § 405, as added Pub. L. 90–201, § 16, Dec. 15, 1967, 81 Stat. 599.)