{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/s1518","title_num":"18","num":"§ 1518.","heading":"Obstruction of criminal investigations of health care offenses","status":null,"guid":"idbcfe704b-4aa6-11eb-bce4-d6beeb6aa2d0","source_credit":"(Added Pub. L. 104–191, title II, § 245(a), Aug. 21, 1996, 110 Stat. 2017.)","seq_in_title":562,"parent_identifier":"/us/usc/t18/ptI/ch73","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/ch73","level":"chapter","num":"CHAPTER 73—","heading":"OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE","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=\"idd39423e2-b211-11e9-bc44-d051d0f40dfd\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t18/s1518\"><num value=\"1518\">§ 1518.</num><heading> Obstruction of criminal investigations of health care offenses</heading><subsection style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\" id=\"idd39423e3-b211-11e9-bc44-d051d0f40dfd\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t18/s1518/a\"><num value=\"a\">(a)</num><content> Whoever willfully prevents, obstructs, misleads, delays or attempts to prevent, obstruct, mislead, or delay the communication of information or records relating to a violation of a Federal health care offense to a criminal investigator shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.</content>\n</subsection>\n<subsection style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\" id=\"idd39423e4-b211-11e9-bc44-d051d0f40dfd\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t18/s1518/b\"><num value=\"b\">(b)</num><content> As used in this section the term “criminal investigator” means any individual duly authorized by a department, agency, or armed force of the United States to conduct or engage in investigations for prosecutions for violations of health care offenses.</content>\n</subsection>\n<sourceCredit id=\"idd39423e5-b211-11e9-bc44-d051d0f40dfd\">(Added <ref href=\"/us/pl/104/191/tII/s245/a\">Pub. L. 104–191, title II, § 245(a)</ref>, <date date=\"1996-08-21\">Aug. 21, 1996</date>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/110/2017\">110 Stat. 2017</ref>.)</sourceCredit>\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":"116-33","currency_date":"2019-07-25","congress":116,"law_num":33,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":178,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["12","18","26","28","34","38","40","44"],"ingested_titles":[]},"is_exact":true,"note":null}