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[CITE: 28USC2462]

 
               TITLE 28--JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
 
                     PART VI--PARTICULAR PROCEEDINGS
 
              CHAPTER 163--FINES, PENALTIES AND FORFEITURES
 
Sec. 2462. Time for commencing proceedings

    Except as otherwise provided by Act of Congress, an action, suit or 
proceeding for the enforcement of any civil fine, penalty, or 
forfeiture, pecuniary or otherwise, shall not be entertained unless 
commenced within five years from the date when the claim first accrued 
if, within the same period, the offender or the property is found within 
the United States in order that proper service may be made thereon.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 974.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 791 (R.S. Sec. 1047).
    Changes were made in phraseology.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 26 section 6533; title 30 
section 1724; title 42 section 7413; title 49 section 21303.
