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Title 18—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE > PART IV—CORRECTION OF YOUTHFUL OFFENDERS > CHAPTER 403—JUVENILE DELINQUENCY

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For the purposes of this chapter, a “juvenile” is a person who has not attained his eighteenth birthday, or for the purpose of proceedings and disposition under this chapter for an alleged act of juvenile delinquency, a person who has not attained his twenty-first birthday, and “juvenile delinquency” is the violation of a law of the United States committed by a person prior to his eighteenth birthday which would have been a crime if committed by an adult or a violation by such a person of section 922(x).

( June 25, 1948, ch. 645 , 62 Stat. 857 ; Pub. L. 93–415, title V, § 501 , Sept. 7, 1974 , 88 Stat. 1133 ; Pub. L. 103–322, title XI, § 110201(c)(1) , Sept. 13, 1994 , 108 Stat. 2012 .)

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