Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Part I · Chapter 93 — Public Officers and Employees
§ 1901. Collecting or disbursing officer trading in public property
Statutory text
Whoever, being an officer of the United States concerned in the collection or the disbursement of the revenues thereof, carries on any trade or business in the funds or debts of the United States, or of any State, or in any public property of either, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and shall be removed from office, and be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 80–645 · 62 Stat. 683
Enacted · 18 U.S.C. § 1901
June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 790
Source evidence
Code source credit
June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 790Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994
Pub. L. 103–322 title XXXIII § 330016(1)(J) · 108 Stat. 1796
Substituted · 18 U.S.C. § 1901
Pub. L. 103–322 substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $3,000”
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 103–322 substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $3,000”.Enacted provision · exact public law section
(J) in sections 431, 432, 479, 960, 1859, 1901, 1911, and 1959 by striking “not more than $3,000” and inserting “under this title”;
1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Notes
Historical and Revision Notes
Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 192 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, § 103, 35 Stat. 1107).
Minor changes were made in phraseology.
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1994—Pub. L. 103–322 substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $3,000”.
Credits
1948–1994 · 2 acts
- 1948June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 790
- 1994Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(J), , 108 Stat. 2147.
Show as published
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 790; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(J), , 108 Stat. 2147.)