18 U.S.C. § 663 — Solicitation or use of gifts

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This section punishes soliciting money or property for the United States with intent to steal or misuse it. It also punishes misuse of money or property donated for the United States.

A person who solicits a gift of money or other property while claiming it is for the United States, intending to embezzle, steal, or purloin it or convert it to another use, may be fined under this title, imprisoned for up to five years, or both. The same punishment applies to a person who possesses money or property donated by its owner for the United States and embezzles, steals, purloins, or converts it to another use or purpose. This section does not define “embezzles,” “steals,” or “purloins.”

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

Whoever solicits any gift of money or other property, and represents that such gift is being solicited for the use of the United States, with the intention of embezzling, stealing, or purloining such gift, or converting the same to any other use or purpose, or whoever, having come into possession of any money or property which has been donated by the owner thereof for the use of the United States, embezzles, steals or purloins such money or property, or converts the same to any other use or purpose, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

Source credit: (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 731; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(K), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1948Enacted · Act of June 25, 1948, ch. 645 · 62 Stat. 731
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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