                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                             PART I--CRIMES
 
                CHAPTER 93--PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES
 
Sec. 1912. Unauthorized fees for inspection of vessels

    Whoever, being an officer, employee, or agent of the United States 
or any agency thereof, engaged in inspection of vessels, upon any 
pretense, receives any fee or reward for his services, except what is 
allowed to him by law, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not 
more than six months, or both; and shall forfeit his office.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 792; 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. 196 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 
321, Sec. 107, 35 Stat. 1107).
    The phrase ``officer or employee of the United States or any agency 
thereof'' was substituted for the phrase ``inspector of steamboats'' in 
view of 1946 Reorganization Plan No. 3, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 
7875, 60 Stat. 1097, abolishing inspectors and transferring their 
functions to the Coast Guard.
    Minor changes were made in phraseology.


                               Amendments

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