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19 U.S.C. § 60 — Penalty for extortion
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This law punishes customs officers who demand or take more money than the law allows for doing their job. An officer who does this owes a $200 penalty for each offense, paid to the person who was overcharged.
Any customs officer who demands or accepts a fee, payment, or reward greater than what the law allows, for performing a duty or service the law requires of them, must pay a penalty of $200 for each offense. That penalty goes to the person who was wronged.
the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain
Every officer of the customs who demands or receives any other or greater fee, compensation, or reward than is allowed by law, for performing any duty or service required from him by law, shall be liable to a penalty of $200 for each offense, recoverable to the use of the party aggrieved.
Source credit: (R.S. § 2636.)
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