18-U.S.C.-1732

§1732 – Approval of Bond Or Sureties By Postmaster

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Title 18 > Part I > Chapter 83 > Section 1732

Details

• Reference: Section 1732
• Legend: §1732 – Approval of Bond Or Sureties By Postmaster
• USCode Year: 2013

Provision Content

Whoever, being a postmaster, affixes his signature to the approval of any bond of a bidder, or to the certificate of sufficiency of sureties in any contract, before the said bond or contract is signed by the bidder or contractor and his sureties, or knowingly, or without the exercise of due diligence, approves any bond of a bidder with insufficient sureties, or knowingly makes any false or fraudulent certificate, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and shall be dismissed from office and disqualified from holding the office of postmaster.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 785; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, §330016(1)(K), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., §352 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, §222, 35 Stat. 1133).

Minor verbal changes were made.

Amendments

1994—Pub. L. 103–322 substituted fined under this title for fined not more than $5,000.

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