Volume 79
Public Law 89–64
To amend section 35 of title 18 of the United States Code relating to the imparting or conveying of false information.
Approved July 7, 1965
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend section 35 of title 18 of the United States Code relating to the imparting or conveying of false information.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That subsection (a)
of section 35 of title 18 of the United States Code is amended to read as follows:
“(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 Ire 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.”
Approved July 7, 1965.