{"data":{"id":"us/18-u.s.c.-5031","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"18 U.S.C. § 5031","heading":"Definitions","body":"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).","path":["Title 18—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE","CHAPTER 403—JUVENILE DELINQUENCY"],"source_url":"https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/103/xml_usc18@119-103.zip","current_through":"Public Law 119-103 (09/02/2026)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-10T05:56:53Z","sha256":"67fc488802fa71599b4550648e3a2f69f531f486a60ba9ea2af9a024d562b9e0","source_id":"us","stale":true,"prev":"us/18-u.s.c.-5010-to-5026","next":"us/18-u.s.c.-5032"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}