Title 52 — Voting and Elections
Chapter 207 — Federal Election Records
§ 20702. Theft, destruction, concealment, mutilation, or alteration of records or papers; penalties
Statutory text
Any person, whether or not an officer of election or custodian, who willfully steals, destroys, conceals, mutilates, or alters any record or paper required by section 20701 of this title to be retained and preserved shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
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.
Civil Rights Act of 1960
Pub. L. 86–449 title III § 302 · 74 Stat. 86
Enacted · 52 U.S.C. § 20702
(Pub. L. 86–449, title III, § 302, May 6, 1960, 74 Stat. 88.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 86–449, title III, § 302, May 6, 1960, 74 Stat. 88.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 302. Any person, whether or not an officer of election or custodian, who willfully steals, destroys, conceals, mutilates, or alters any record or paper required by section 301 to be retained and preserved shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was formerly classified to section 1974a of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.