18 USC § 1018 - Official certificates or writings

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identifier: "/us/usc/t18/s1018"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_legal_evidence"
title: "18 USC § 1018 - Official certificates or writings"
title_number: 18
title_name: "CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE"
section_number: "1018"
section_name: "Official certificates or writings"
chapter_number: 47
chapter_name: "FRAUD AND FALSE STATEMENTS"
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. 753; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(G), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)"
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# § 1018. Official certificates or writings

Whoever, being a public officer or other person authorized by any law of the United States to make or give a certificate or other writing, knowingly makes and delivers as true such a certificate or writing, containing any statement which he knows to be false, in a case where the punishment thereof is not elsewhere expressly provided by law, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

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**Source Credit**: (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 753; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(G), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 195 (, ).

Minor changes were made in phraseology.

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1994— substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $500”.