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18 U.S.C. § 494 — Contractors’ bonds, bids, and public records

submitted 78 years ago by ch. 645 to r/title-18-CRIMES-AND-CRIMINAL-PROCEDURE · 115 words · no verdicts yet

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A person who creates or changes specified false writings to defraud the United States, knowingly treats them as genuine, or submits them to a United States office or officer may be punished. The maximum punishment is a fine, up to 10 years in prison, or both.

A person may be fined under this title, imprisoned for up to 10 years, or both, if the person does any of the following: • falsely makes, changes, forges, or counterfeits a bond, bid, proposal, contract, guarantee, security, official bond, public record, affidavit, or other writing to defraud the United States; • says or publishes such a false, forged, changed, or counterfeit writing as true, or possesses it intending to say or publish it as true, while knowing it is false, forged, changed, or counterfeit; or • sends or presents such a writing to a United States office or officer while knowing it is false, forged, changed, or counterfeit.
the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

Whoever falsely makes, alters, forges, or counterfeits any bond, bid, proposal, contract, guarantee, security, official bond, public record, affidavit, or other writing for the purpose of defrauding the United States; or

Whoever utters or publishes as true or possesses with intent to utter or publish as true, any such false, forged, altered, or counterfeited writing, knowing the same to be false, forged, altered, or counterfeited; or

Whoever transmits to, or presents at any office or to any officer of the United States, any such false, forged, altered, or counterfeited writing, knowing the same to be false, forged, altered, or counterfeited—

Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.

Source credit: (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 711; 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. 711
  • 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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