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[CITE: 40USC727]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
                CHAPTER 15--GOVERNMENT LOSSES IN SHIPMENT
 
Sec. 727. Presumption of lawful conduct

    Every officer and employee of the United States and every person 
acting on behalf of a wholly owned corporation who makes a shipment of 
valuables in good faith pursuant to and substantially in accordance with 
the regulations prescribed under section 721 of this title shall be 
deemed, insofar as there may be concerned the propriety with respect to 
such shipment of any act or omission governed by such regulations, to be 
acting in faithful execution of his duties of office and in full 
performance of the conditions of his bond and oath of office, if any.

(July 8, 1937, ch. 444, Sec. 5, 50 Stat. 480.)

                          Codification

    Section was formerly classified to section 134d of Title 5 prior to 
the general revision and enactment of Title 5, Government Organization 
and Employees, by Pub. L. 89-554, Sec. 1, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 378.
