                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
                      CHAPTER 4--TARIFF ACT OF 1930
 
                 SUBTITLE III--ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
 
                     Part V--Enforcement Provisions
 
Sec. 1620. Acceptance of money by United States officers

    Any officer of the United States who directly or indirectly 
receives, accepts, or contracts for any portion of the money which may 
accrue to any person making such detection and seizure, or furnishing 
such information, shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction 
thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000, or by 
imprisonment for not more than two years, or both, and shall be 
thereafter ineligible to any office of honor, trust, or emolument. Any 
such person who pays to any such officer, or to any person for the use 
of such officer, any portion of such money, or anything of value for or 
because of such money, shall have a right of action against such 
officer, or his legal representatives, or against such person, or his 
legal representatives, and shall be entitled to recover the money so 
paid or the thing of value so given.

(June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title IV, Sec. 620, 46 Stat. 758.)


                            Prior Provisions

    Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in act 
Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 356, title IV, Sec. 620, 42 Stat. 988. That section 
was superseded by section 620 of act June 17, 1930, comprising this 
section, and repealed by section 651(a)(1) of the 1930 act.
    Provisions somewhat similar to those in this section but excepting 
cases of smuggling were contained in act June 22, 1874, ch. 391, Sec. 7, 
18 Stat. 187, prior to repeal by act Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 356, title IV, 
Sec. 643, 42 Stat. 989.
