18 U.S.C. § 2072 — False crop reports
submitted 78 years ago by ch. 645 to r/title-18-CRIMES-AND-CRIMINAL-PROCEDURE · 71 words · no verdicts yet
This section makes it a crime for a covered federal officer or employee to knowingly prepare or issue false statistics or information about agricultural products as a United States report. The punishment is a fine, imprisonment for up to five years, or both.
A United States or agency* officer or employee whose duties include compiling or reporting statistics or information about products of the soil commits an offense if the person knowingly compiles false statistics or information for issuance, or issues them, as a report of the United States or one of its agencies. The person may be fined under this title, imprisoned for not more than five years, or both.
Whoever, being an officer or employee of the United States or any of its agencies, whose duties require the compilation or report of statistics or information relating to the products of the soil, knowingly compiles for issuance, or issues, any false statistics or information as a report of the United States or any of its agencies, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
Source credit: (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 795; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(K), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)
- 1948Enacted · Act of June 25, 1948, ch. 645 · 62 Stat. 795
- 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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