{"data":{"id":"us/18-u.s.c.-1018","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"18 U.S.C. § 1018","heading":"Official certificates or writings","body":"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.","path":["Title 18—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE","CHAPTER 47—FRAUD AND FALSE STATEMENTS"],"source_url":"https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/103/xml_usc18@119-103.zip","current_through":"Public Law 119-103 (09/02/2026)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-10T05:56:53Z","sha256":"d8f5c8e578013990dac798b415d1dc82d7186e72300af26b34233b483dc61bae","source_id":"us","stale":false,"prev":"us/18-u.s.c.-1017","next":"us/18-u.s.c.-1019"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}