18 U.S.C. § 1018 — Official certificates or writings

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This section punishes knowingly issuing a false official certificate or writing when authorized to issue it.

A public officer or other person authorized by United States law to make or give a certificate or other writing who knowingly makes and delivers it as true while it contains a statement the person knows is false, when another law does not expressly provide the punishment, may be fined, imprisoned for up to 1 year, or both.

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Whoever, being a public officer or other person authorized by any law of the United States to make or give a certificate or other writing, knowingly makes and delivers as true such a certificate or writing, containing any statement which he knows to be false, in a case where the punishment thereof is not elsewhere expressly provided by law, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

Source credit: (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 753; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(G), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1948Enacted · Act of June 25, 1948, ch. 645 · 62 Stat. 753
1994Amended · Pub. L. 103-322 · 108 Stat. 2147

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 645 on 1948-06-25.

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