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    18 USC Sec. 1024                                            01/05/2009

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    TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
    PART I - CRIMES
    CHAPTER 47 - FRAUD AND FALSE STATEMENTS

HEAD

    Sec. 1024. Purchase or receipt of military, naval, or veteran's
      facilities property

STATUTE

      Whoever purchases, or receives in pledge from any person any
    arms, equipment, ammunition, clothing, military stores, or other
    property furnished by the United States under a clothing allowance
    or otherwise, to any member of the Armed Forces of the United
    States or of the National Guard or Naval Militia, or to any person
    accompanying, serving, or retained with the land or naval forces
    and subject to military or naval law, or to any former member of
    such Armed Forces at or by any hospital, home, or facility
    maintained by the United States, having knowledge or reason to
    believe that the property has been taken from the possession of or
    furnished by the United States under such allowance, or otherwise,
    shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two
    years, or both.

SOURCE

    (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 754; Pub. L. 103-322, title
    XXXIII, Sec. 330016(1)(G), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES

      Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 86 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch.
    321, Sec. 35, 35 Stat. 1095; Oct. 23, 1918, ch. 194, 40 Stat. 1015;
    June 18, 1934, ch. 587, 48 Stat. 996; Apr. 4, 1938, ch. 69, 52
    Stat. 197; Apr. 30, 1940, ch. 164, 54 Stat. 171).
      Minor changes were made in phraseology.
                                AMENDMENTS
      1994 - Pub. L. 103-322 substituted "fined under this title" for
    "fined not more than $500".