---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 U.S.C. § 860a"
title: "21"
title_heading: "Food and Drugs"
number: "860a"
heading: "Consecutive sentence for manufacturing or distributing, or possessing with intent to manufacture or distribute, methamphetamine on premises where children are present or reside"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/21/860a"
units:
  - "Chapter 13 — Drug Abuse Prevention and Control"
  - "Subchapter I — Control and Enforcement"
  - "Part D — Offenses and Penalties"
---

# §860a. Consecutive sentence for manufacturing or distributing, or possessing with intent to manufacture or distribute, methamphetamine on premises where children are present or reside


Whoever violates [section 841(a)(1) of this title](/usc/21/841.md?p=a-1) by manufacturing or distributing, or possessing with intent to [manufacture](/usc/21/802.md?p=15) or [distribute](/usc/21/802.md?p=11), methamphetamine or its salts, [isomers](/usc/21/802.md?p=14) or salts of [isomers](/usc/21/802.md?p=14) on premises in which an individual who is under the age of 18 years is present or resides, shall, in addition to any other sentence imposed, be imprisoned for a period of any term of years but not more than 20 years, subject to a fine, or both.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–513, title II, § 419a, as added Pub. L. 109–177, title VII, § 734(a), Mar. 9, 2006, 120 Stat. 270.)