18 U.S.C. § 210 — Offer to procure appointive public office

submitted 78 years ago by ch. 645 to r/title-18-CRIMES-AND-CRIMINAL-PROCEDURE · 58 words · no verdicts yet

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This law makes it a crime to pay, offer, or promise money or anything of value to someone in exchange for using their influence to help get a person appointed to a federal office. It's punishable by a fine or up to a year in prison, or both.

This is a single unlabeled rule. Anyone who pays, offers, or promises money or anything of value to a person, business, or organization, in exchange for that person using — or promising to use — their influence to help get someone appointed to a federal office, can be fined or imprisoned for up to one year, or both.

the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

Whoever pays or offers or promises any money or thing of value, to any person, firm, or corporation in consideration of the use or promise to use any influence to procure any appointive office or place under the United States for any person, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

Source credit: (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 694, § 210, formerly § 214; renumbered § 210, Pub. L. 87–849, § 1(b), Oct. 23, 1962, 76 Stat. 1125; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(H), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1948Enacted · Act of June 25, 1948, ch. 645 · 62 Stat. 694
1962Amended · Pub. L. 87-849 · 76 Stat. 1125
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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