{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/s1019","title_num":"18","num":"§ 1019.","heading":"Certificates by consular officers","status":null,"guid":"idbc8a78af-4aa6-11eb-bce4-d6beeb6aa2d0","source_credit":"(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 753; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(L), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)","seq_in_title":408,"parent_identifier":"/us/usc/t18/ptI/ch47","ancestors":[{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18","level":"title","num":"Title 18—","heading":"CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/ptI","level":"part","num":"PART I—","heading":"CRIMES","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/ptI/ch47","level":"chapter","num":"CHAPTER 47—","heading":"FRAUD AND FALSE STATEMENTS","status":null,"is_section":false}],"xml":"<section xmlns=\"http://xml.house.gov/schemas/uslm/1.0\" xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" xmlns:dcterms=\"http://purl.org/dc/terms/\" style=\"-uslm-lc:I80\" id=\"id749d2bd3-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t18/s1019\"><num value=\"1019\">§ 1019.</num><heading> Certificates by consular officers</heading><content>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\">Whoever, being a consul, or vice consul, or other person employed in the consular service of the United States, knowingly certifies falsely to any invoice, or other paper, to which his certificate is authorized or required by law, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.</p>\n</content><sourceCredit id=\"id749d2bd4-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\">(<ref href=\"/us/act/1948-06-25/ch645\">June 25, 1948, ch. 645</ref>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/62/753\">62 Stat. 753</ref>; <ref href=\"/us/pl/103/322/tXXXIII/s330016/1/L\">Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(L)</ref>, <date date=\"1994-09-13\">Sept. 13, 1994</date>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/108/2147\">108 Stat. 2147</ref>.)</sourceCredit>\n<notes type=\"uscNote\" id=\"id749d2bd5-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\">\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" topic=\"historicalAndRevision\" id=\"id749d2bd6-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\"><heading class=\"centered smallCaps\">Historical and Revision Notes</heading><p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 127 (<ref href=\"/us/act/1909-03-04/ch321/s70\">Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, § 70</ref>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/35/1101\">35 Stat. 1101</ref>).</p>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">Mandatory punishment provision was rephrased in the alternative.</p>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">Changes were made in phraseology.</p>\n</note>\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" role=\"crossHeading\" topic=\"editorialNotes\" id=\"id749d2bd7-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\"><heading class=\"centered\"><b>Editorial Notes</b></heading></note>\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" topic=\"amendments\" id=\"id749d2bd8-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\"><heading class=\"centered smallCaps\">Amendments</heading><p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">1994—<ref href=\"/us/pl/103/322\">Pub. L. 103–322</ref> substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $10,000”.</p>\n</note>\n</notes>\n</section>","provision":null,"duplicates":[],"release":{"label":"116-252","currency_date":"2020-12-22","congress":116,"law_num":252,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":222,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["18","20","31","34","40","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"served_from":{"label":"116-252","currency_date":"2020-12-22","congress":116,"law_num":252,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":222,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["18","20","31","34","40","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"content_first_seen":{"label":"116-214","currency_date":"2020-12-05","congress":116,"law_num":214,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":218,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["02","09","11a","15","16","18","18a","20","21","22","28a","31","37","38","39","40","41","51","52","54"],"ingested_titles":[]},"is_exact":true,"note":null}