18 USC § 1732 - Approval of bond or sureties by postmaster

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identifier: "/us/usc/t18/s1732"
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legal_status: "official_legal_evidence"
title: "18 USC § 1732 - Approval of bond or sureties by postmaster"
title_number: 18
title_name: "CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE"
section_number: "1732"
section_name: "Approval of bond or sureties by postmaster"
chapter_number: 83
chapter_name: "POSTAL SERVICE"
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. 785; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(K), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)"
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# § 1732. Approval of bond or sureties by postmaster

Whoever, being a postmaster, affixes his signature to the approval of any bond of a bidder, or to the certificate of sufficiency of sureties in any contract, before the said bond or contract is signed by the bidder or contractor and his sureties, or knowingly, or without the exercise of due diligence, approves any bond of a bidder with insufficient sureties, or knowingly makes any false or fraudulent certificate, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and shall be dismissed from office and disqualified from holding the office of postmaster.

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**Source Credit**: (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 785; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(K), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 352 (, ).

Minor verbal changes were made.

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

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