Terms Used In U.S. Code > Title 18 > Part II > Chapter 228A - Post-Conviction DNA Testing

• agency: includes any department, independent establishment, commission, administration, authority, board or bureau of the United States or any corporation in which the United States has a proprietary interest, unless the context shows that such term was intended to be used in a more limited sense. See 16 USC 7144
• individual: shall include every infant member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development. See 1 USC 8
• United States: as used in this title in a territorial sense, includes all places and waters, continental or insular, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, except the Canal Zone. See 16 USC 7143a