10 U.S.C. § 8878 — Interfering with delivery, custody, or sale of prize property
submitted 70 years ago by ch. 1041 to r/title-10-ARMED-FORCES · 86 words · no verdicts yet
This section makes intentional interference with prize property or related records unlawful when done to defraud, delay, or injure the United States or a claimant. It sets a fine, imprisonment, or both.
Whoever willfully does, or aids or advises in the doing of, any act relating to the bringing in, custody, preservation, sale, or other disposition of any property captured as prize, or relating to any documents or papers connected with the property or to any deposition or other document or paper connected with the proceedings, with intent to defraud, delay, or injure the United States or any claimant of that property, must be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
Whoever willfully does, or aids or advises in the doing of, any act relating to the bringing in, custody, preservation, sale, or other disposition of any property captured as prize, or relating to any documents or papers connected with the property or to any deposition or other document or paper connected with the proceedings, with intent to defraud, delay, or injure the United States or any claimant of that property, shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
Source credit: (Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 482, § 7678; renumbered § 8878, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 807(d)(9), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1837.)
- 1956Enacted · Act of Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041
- 2018Amended · Pub. L. 115-232 · 132 Stat. 1837
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 1041 on 1956-08-10.
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