{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/s597","title_num":"18","num":"§ 597.","heading":"Expenditures to influence voting","status":null,"guid":"idbbf84b18-4aa6-11eb-bce4-d6beeb6aa2d0","source_credit":"(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 721; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(H), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147; Pub. L. 104–294, title VI, § 601(a)(12), Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3498.)","seq_in_title":230,"parent_identifier":"/us/usc/t18/ptI/ch29","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/ch29","level":"chapter","num":"CHAPTER 29—","heading":"ELECTIONS AND POLITICAL ACTIVITIES","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=\"id746d698c-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t18/s597\"><num value=\"597\">§ 597.</num><heading> Expenditures to influence voting</heading><content>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\">Whoever makes or offers to make an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote, or to vote for or against any candidate; and</p>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\">Whoever solicits, accepts, or receives any such expenditure in consideration of his vote or the withholding of his vote—</p>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\">Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if the violation was willful, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.</p>\n</content><sourceCredit id=\"id746d698d-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\">(<ref href=\"/us/act/1948-06-25/ch645\">June 25, 1948, ch. 645</ref>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/62/721\">62 Stat. 721</ref>; <ref href=\"/us/pl/103/322/tXXXIII/s330016/1/H\">Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(H)</ref>, <date date=\"1994-09-13\">Sept. 13, 1994</date>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/108/2147\">108 Stat. 2147</ref>; <ref href=\"/us/pl/104/294/tVI/s601/a/12\">Pub. L. 104–294, title VI, § 601(a)(12)</ref>, <date date=\"1996-10-11\">Oct. 11, 1996</date>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/110/3498\">110 Stat. 3498</ref>.)</sourceCredit>\n<notes type=\"uscNote\" id=\"id746d698e-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\">\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" topic=\"historicalAndRevision\" id=\"id746d698f-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\"><heading class=\"centered smallCaps\">Historical and Revision Notes</heading><p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">Based on sections 250, 252, of title 2, U.S.C., 1940 ed., The Congress (<ref href=\"/us/act/1925-02-28/ch368\">Feb. 28, 1925, ch. 368</ref>, title III, §§ 311, 314, <ref href=\"/us/stat/43/1073\">43 Stat. 1073</ref>, 1074).</p>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">This section consolidates the provisions of sections 250 and 252 of title 2, U.S.C., 1940 ed., The Congress.</p>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">Reference to persons causing or procuring was omitted as unnecessary in view of definition of “principal” in <ref href=\"/us/usc/t18/s2\">section 2 of this title</ref>.</p>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">The punishment provisions of <ref href=\"/us/usc/t2/s252\">section 252 of title 2</ref>, U.S.C., 1940 ed., The Congress, were incorporated at end of section upon authority of reference in such section making them applicable to this section.</p>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">Words “or both” were added to conform to the almost universal formula of the punishment provisions of this title.</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=\"id746d6990-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\"><heading class=\"centered\"><b>Editorial Notes</b></heading></note>\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" topic=\"amendments\" id=\"id746d6991-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\"><heading class=\"centered smallCaps\">Amendments</heading><p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">1996—<ref href=\"/us/pl/104/294\">Pub. L. 104–294</ref> substituted “shall be fined under this title” for “shall be fined not more than $10,000” in last par.</p>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">1994—<ref href=\"/us/pl/103/322\">Pub. L. 103–322</ref> substituted “shall be fined under this title” for “shall be fined not more than $1,000” in last par.</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}