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Volume 68

Public Law 83–602

To amend section 1071 of title 18, United States Code, relating to the concealing of persons from arrest, so as to Increase the penalties therein provided.

Approved August 20, 1954

Statutory text

AN ACT

To amend section 1071 of title 18, United States Code, relating to the concealing of persons from arrest, so as to Increase the penalties therein provided.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That section 1071 of title 18, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:

“Whoever harbors or conceals any person for whose arrest a warrant or process has been issued under the provisions of any law of the United States, so as to prevent his discovery and arrest, after notice or knowledge of the fact that a warrant or process has been issued for the apprehension of such person, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; except that if the warrant or process issued on a charge of felony, or after conviction of such person of any offense, the punishment shall be a fine of not more than $5,000, or imprisonment for not more than five years, or both.”

Approved August 20, 1954.

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