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CITE

    18 USC Sec. 1018                                            01/05/2009

EXPCITE

    TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
    PART I - CRIMES
    CHAPTER 47 - FRAUD AND FALSE STATEMENTS

HEAD

    Sec. 1018. Official certificates or writings

STATUTE

      Whoever, being a public officer or other person authorized by any
    law of the United States to make or give a certificate or other
    writing, knowingly makes and delivers as true such a certificate or
    writing, containing any statement which he knows to be false, in a
    case where the punishment thereof is not elsewhere expressly
    provided by law, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not
    more than one year, or both.

SOURCE

    (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 753; Pub. L. 103-322, title
    XXXIII, Sec. 330016(1)(G), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES

      Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 195 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch.
    321, Sec. 106, 35 Stat. 1107).
      Minor changes were made in phraseology.
                                AMENDMENTS
      1994 - Pub. L. 103-322 substituted "fined under this title" for
    "fined not more than $500".