                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                             PART I--CRIMES
 
                 CHAPTER 47--FRAUD AND FALSE STATEMENTS
 
Sec. 1018. Official certificates or writings

    Whoever, being a public officer or other person authorized by any 
law of the United States to make or give a certificate or other writing, 
knowingly makes and delivers as true such a certificate or writing, 
containing any statement which he knows to be false, in a case where the 
punishment thereof is not elsewhere expressly provided by law, shall be 
fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 753; Pub. L. 103-322, title XXXIII, 
Sec. 330016(1)(G), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 195 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 
321, Sec. 106, 35 Stat. 1107).
    Minor changes were made in phraseology.


                               Amendments

    1994--Pub. L. 103-322 substituted ``fined under this title'' for 
``fined not more than $500''.
