Volume 65 · 150
Public Law 82–98
To amend section 4202 of title 18, United States Code, relating to parole of Federal prisoners.
Approved July 31, 1951
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend section 4202 of title 18, United States Code, relating to parole of Federal prisoners.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 4202 of title 18 of the United States Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
Ҥ 4202. Prisoners eligible
“A Federal prisoner, other than a juvenile delinquent or a committed youth offender, wherever confined and serving a definite term or terms of over one hundred and eighty days, whose record shows that he has observed the rules of the institution in which he is confined, may be released on parole after serving one-third of such term or terms or after serving fifteen years of a life sentence or of a sentence of over forty-five years.”
Approved July 31, 1951.