42 U.S.C. § 2276 — Tampering with Restricted Data

submitted 80 years ago by ch. 724 to r/title-42-THE-PUBLIC-HEALTH-AND-WELFARE · 116 words · no verdicts yet

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A person who, with intent to harm the United States or help a foreign nation, damages or destroys specified documents or objects involving Restricted Data may receive a life sentence, a term of years, a fine, or both imprisonment and a fine.

Whoever, with intent to injure the United States or with intent to secure an advantage to any foreign nation, removes, conceals, tampers with, alters, mutilates, or destroys any document, writing, sketch, photograph, plan, model, instrument, appliance, or note involving or incorporating Restricted Data and used by any individual or person in connection with the production of special nuclear material, or research or development relating to atomic energy, conducted by the United States, or financed in whole or in part by Federal funds, or conducted with the aid of special nuclear material, is punished by imprisonment for life, or by imprisonment for any term of years or a fine of not more than $20,000 or both.

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

Whoever, with intent to injure the United States or with intent to secure an advantage to any foreign nation, removes, conceals, tampers with, alters, mutilates, or destroys any document, writing, sketch, photograph, plan, model, instrument, appliance, or note involving or incorporating Restricted Data and used by any individual or person in connection with the production of special nuclear material, or research or development relating to atomic energy, conducted by the United States, or financed in whole or in part by Federal funds, or conducted with the aid of special nuclear material, shall be punished by imprisonment for life, or by imprisonment for any term of years or a fine of not more than $20,000 or both.

Source credit: (Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724, title I, § 226, as added Aug. 30, 1954, ch. 1073, § 1, 68 Stat. 959; amended Pub. L. 91–161, § 3(b), Dec. 24, 1969, 83 Stat. 444; renumbered title I, Pub. L. 102–486, title IX, § 902(a)(8), Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 2944.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1946Enacted · Act of Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724 · 68 Stat. 959
1969Amended · Pub. L. 91-161 · 83 Stat. 444
1992Amended · Pub. L. 102-486 · 106 Stat. 2944

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