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[CITE: 28USC1918]

 
               TITLE 28--JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
 
                            PART V--PROCEDURE
 
                       CHAPTER 123--FEES AND COSTS
 
Sec. 1918. District courts; fines, forfeitures and criminal 
        proceedings
        
    (a) Costs shall be included in any judgment, order, or decree 
rendered against any person for the violation of an Act of Congress in 
which a civil fine or forfeiture of property is provided for.
    (b) Whenever any conviction for any offense not capital is obtained 
in a district court, the court may order that the defendant pay the 
costs of prosecution.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 955.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 822 (R.S. Sec. 974).
    Changes were made in phraseology.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 21 section 844.
