18 USC § 874 - Kickbacks from public works employees

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identifier: "/us/usc/t18/s874"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_legal_evidence"
title: "18 USC § 874 - Kickbacks from public works employees"
title_number: 18
title_name: "CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE"
section_number: "874"
section_name: "Kickbacks from public works employees"
chapter_number: 41
chapter_name: "EXTORTION AND THREATS"
part_number: "I"
part_name: "CRIMES"
positive_law: true
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-21"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 740; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(K), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)"
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# § 874. Kickbacks from public works employees

Whoever, by force, intimidation, or threat of procuring dismissal from employment, or by any other manner whatsoever induces any person employed in the construction, prosecution, completion or repair of any public building, public work, or building or work financed in whole or in part by loans or grants from the United States, to give up any part of the compensation to which he is entitled under his contract of employment, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

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**Source Credit**: (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 740; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(K), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on , U.S.C., 1940 ed., Public Buildings, Property, and Works (, ).

Slight changes of phraseology were made.

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1994— substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $5,000”.