18 U.S. Code § 2071 - Concealment, removal, or mutilation
generally
Current through Pub. L. 114-38. (See Public Laws for the
current Congress.)
(a) Whoever willfully
and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, or destroys, or
attempts to do so, or, with intent to do so takes and carries away any record,
proceeding, map, book, paper, document, or other thing, filed or deposited with
any clerk or officer of any court of the United States, or in any public
office, or with any judicial or public officer of the United States, shall be
fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
(b) Whoever, having the custody of any such record,
proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or other thing, willfully and
unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys
the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three
years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be
disqualified from holding any office under the United States. As
used in this subsection, the term “office” does not include the office held by
any person as a retired officer of the Armed Forces of the United States.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 795; Pub. L. 101–510, div.
A, title V, § 552(a), Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 1566; Pub. L. 103–322, title
XXXIII, § 330016(1)(I), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)
(a) Whoever willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, or destroys, or attempts to do so, or, with intent to do so takes and carries away any record, proceeding, map, book, paper, document, or other thing, filed or deposited with any clerk or officer of any court of the United States, or in any public office, or with any judicial or public officer of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
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