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[CITE: 42USC707]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                       CHAPTER 7--SOCIAL SECURITY
 
      SUBCHAPTER V--MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH SERVICES BLOCK GRANT
 
Sec. 707. Criminal penalty for false statements

    (a) Whoever--
        (1) knowingly and willfully makes or causes to be made any false 
    statement or representation of a material fact in connection with 
    the furnishing of items or services for which payment may be made by 
    a State from funds allotted to the State under this subchapter, or
        (2) having knowledge of the occurrence of any event affecting 
    his initial or continued right to any such payment conceals or fails 
    to disclose such event with an intent fraudulently to secure such 
    payment either in a greater amount than is due or when no such 
    payment is authorized,

shall be fined not more than $25,000 or imprisoned for not more than 
five years, or both.
    (b) For civil monetary penalties for certain submissions of false 
claims, see section 1320a-7a of this title.

(Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title V, Sec. 507, as added Pub. L. 97-35, 
title XXI, Sec. 2192(a), Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 824.)


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 707, act Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title V, Sec. 507, 
as added Jan. 2, 1968, Pub. L. 90-248, title III, Sec. 301, 81 Stat. 
925, related to failure of State plan to comply with provisions of this 
subchapter, prior to the general revision of this subchapter by section 
2192(a) of Pub. L. 97-35. See section 706 of this title. For effective 
date, savings, and transitional provisions, see section 2194 of Pub. L. 
97-35, set out as a note under section 701 of this title.
    Provisions similar to those comprising former section 707 were 
contained in sections 505 and 515 of act Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title 
V, 49 Stat. 631, 633, as amended (formerly classified to sections 705 
and 715 of this title), prior to the general amendment and renumbering 
of title V of act Aug. 14, 1935, by Pub. L. 90-248, Sec. 301.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 710 of this title.
