18 USC § 1421 - Accounts of court officers

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identifier: "/us/usc/t18/s1421"
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legal_status: "official_legal_evidence"
title: "18 USC § 1421 - Accounts of court officers"
title_number: 18
title_name: "CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE"
section_number: "1421"
section_name: "Accounts of court officers"
chapter_number: 69
chapter_name: "NATIONALITY AND CITIZENSHIP"
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. 766; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(K), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)"
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# § 1421. Accounts of court officers

Whoever, being a clerk or assistant clerk of a court, or other person charged by law with a duty to render true accounts of moneys received in any proceeding relating to citizenship, naturalization, or registration of aliens or to pay over any balance of such moneys due to the United States, willfully neglects to do so within thirty days after said payment shall become due and demand therefor has been made, 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. 766; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(K), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on subsections (a)(34), (d) and () of , U.S.C., 1940 ed., Aliens and Nationality (, (d), (), , 1168).

Minor changes in phraseology only were made.

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

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