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CITE

    18 USC Sec. 35                                              01/05/2009

EXPCITE

    TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
    PART I - CRIMES
    CHAPTER 2 - AIRCRAFT AND MOTOR VEHICLES

HEAD

    Sec. 35. Imparting or conveying false information

STATUTE

      (a) Whoever imparts or conveys or causes to be imparted or
    conveyed false information, knowing the information to be false,
    concerning an attempt or alleged attempt being made or to be made,
    to do any act which would be a crime prohibited by this chapter or
    chapter 97 or chapter 111 of this title shall be subject to a civil
    penalty of not more than $1,000 which shall be recoverable in a
    civil action brought in the name of the United States.
      (b) Whoever willfully and maliciously, or with reckless disregard
    for the safety of human life, imparts or conveys or causes to be
    imparted or conveyed false information, knowing the information to
    be false, concerning an attempt or alleged attempt being made or to
    be made, to do any act which would be a crime prohibited by this
    chapter or chapter 97 or chapter 111 of this title - shall be fined
    under this title, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

SOURCE

    (Added July 14, 1956, ch. 595, Sec. 1, 70 Stat. 540; amended Pub.
    L. 87-338, Oct. 3, 1961, 75 Stat. 751; Pub. L. 89-64, July 7, 1965,
    79 Stat. 210; Pub. L. 103-322, title XXXIII, Sec. 330016(1)(K),
    Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

AMENDMENTS

      1994 - Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 103-322 substituted "fined under this
    title" for "fined not more than $5,000".
      1965 - Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 89-64 substituted "subject to a civil
    penalty of not more than $1,000 which shall be recoverable in a
    civil action brought in the name of the United States" for "fined
    not more than $1,000, or imprisoned not more than one year, or
    both".
      1961 - Pub. L. 87-338 designated existing provisions as subsec.
    (a), struck out "willfully" before "imparts or conveys", and added
    subsec. (b).