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18 U.S.C. § 2071 — Concealment, removal, or mutilation generally
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**(a)** Whoever willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, or destroys, or attempts to do so, or, with intent to do so takes and carries away any record, proceeding, map, book, paper, document, or other thing, filed or deposited with any clerk or officer of any court of the United States, or in any public office, or with any judicial or public officer of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
**(b)** Whoever, having the custody of any such record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or other thing, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States. As used in this subsection, the term “office” does not include the office held by any person as a retired officer of the Armed Forces of the United States.
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**(a)** Whoever willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, or destroys, or attempts to do so, or, with intent to do so takes and carries away any record, proceeding, map, book, paper, document, or other thing, filed or deposited with any clerk or officer of any court of the United States, or in any public office, or with any judicial or public officer of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
**(b)** Whoever, having the custody of any such record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or other thing, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States. As used in this subsection, the term “office” does not include the office held by any person as a retired officer of the Armed Forces of the United States.
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Whoever embezzles, steals, purloins, or knowingly converts to his use or the use of another, or without authority, sells, conveys or disposes of any record, voucher, money, or thing of value of the United States or of any department or agency thereof, or any property made or being made under contract for the United States or any department or agency thereof; or
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TITLE 18—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
[§ 1993
the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (42 U.S.C.
10101(23));
(14) the term ‘‘State’’ has the meaning given
to that term in section 2266;
(15) the term ‘‘toxin’’ has the meaning given
to that term in section 178(2); and
(16) the term ‘‘vehicle’’ means any carriage
or other contrivance used, or capable of being
used, as a means of transportation on land, on
water, or through the air.
(Added Pub. L. 109–177, title I, § 110(a), Mar. 9,
2006, 120 Stat. 205; amended Pub. L. 110–53, title
XV, § 1539, Aug. 3, 2007, 121 Stat. 468; Pub. L.
115–232, div. C, title XXXV, § 3541(b)(3), Aug. 13,
2018, 132 Stat. 2323.)
Editorial Notes
REFERENCES IN TEXT
Section 5302 of title 49, referred to in subsec. (d)(7),
was amended generally by Pub. L. 112–141, div. B,
§ 20004, July 6, 2012, 126 Stat. 623, and, as so amended, no
longer defines the term ‘‘mass transportation’’.
PRIOR PROVISIONS
A prior section 1992, acts June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62
Stat. 794; Pub. L. 103–322, title VI, § 60003(a)(8), title
XXXIII, § 330016(1)(L), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1969, 2147;
Pub. L. 104–88, title IV, § 402(b), Dec. 29, 1995, 109 Stat.
955; Pub. L. 107–56, title VIII, § 811(e), Oct. 26, 2001, 115
Stat. 381; Pub. L. 107–273, div. B, title IV, § 4002(a)(6),
Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1807, related to penalties for
wrecking a train used by a railroad in interstate or for-
eign commerce, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 109–177, title
I, § 110(a), Mar. 9, 2006, 120 Stat. 205.
AMENDMENTS
2018—Subsec. (d)(7). Pub. L. 115–232 substituted ‘‘sec-
tion 2101(31)’’ for ‘‘section 2101(22)’’.
2007—Subsec. (d)(7). Pub. L. 110–53 inserted ‘‘intercity
bus transportation’’ after ‘‘includes’’.
[§ 1993. Repealed. Pub. L. 109–177, title I, § 110(a),
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