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18 U.S.C. § 643 — Accounting generally for public money

submitted 78 years ago by ch. 645 to r/title-18-CRIMES-AND-CRIMINAL-PROCEDURE · 106 words · no verdicts yet

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A United States officer, employee, or agent who fails to account for public money that the person was not allowed to keep commits embezzlement. The penalty is a fine, imprisonment up to 10 years, or both; if the amount is $1,000 or less, the maximum prison term is one year.

A United States officer, employee, or agent, or an officer, employee, or agent of a United States department or agency, who receives public money that the person is not authorized to keep as salary, pay, or other compensation and fails to account for it as the law requires is guilty of embezzlement. The person may be fined under this title or fined an amount equal to the embezzled money, whichever is greater, imprisoned for not more than 10 years, or both. If the embezzled amount is $1,000 or less, the person may instead be fined under this title, imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.
the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

Whoever, being an officer, employee or agent of the United States or of any department or agency thereof, having received public money which he is not authorized to retain as salary, pay, or emolument, fails to render his accounts for the same as provided by law is guilty of embezzlement, and shall be fined under this title or in a sum equal to the amount of the money embezzled, whichever is greater, or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; but if the amount embezzled does not exceed $1,000, he shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

Source credit: (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 726; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(H), (2)(G), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147, 2148; Pub. L. 104–294, title VI, § 606(a), Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3511.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit
  • 1948Enacted · Act of June 25, 1948, ch. 645 · 62 Stat. 726
  • 1994Amended · Pub. L. 103-322 · 108 Stat. 2147, 2148
  • 1996Amended · Pub. L. 104-294 · 110 Stat. 3511

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

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