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[CITE: 18USC598]

 
                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                             PART I--CRIMES
 
             CHAPTER 29--ELECTIONS AND POLITICAL ACTIVITIES
 
Sec. 598. Coercion by means of relief appropriations

    Whoever uses any part of any appropriation made by Congress for work 
relief, relief, or for increasing employment by providing loans and 
grants for public-works projects, or exercises or administers any 
authority conferred by any Appropriation Act for the purpose of 
interfering with, restraining, or coercing any individual in the 
exercise of his right to vote at any election, shall be fined under this 
title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 721; Pub. L. 103-322, title XXXIII, 
Sec. 330016(1)(H), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Secs. 61f, 61g (Aug. 2, 1939, 
11:50 a.m., E.S.T., ch. 410. Secs. 7, 8, 53 Stat. 1148).
    This section consolidates sections 61f and 61g of title 18, U.S.C., 
1940 ed., with changes of phraseology necessary to effect consolidation.
    The punishment provision was derived from section 61g of title 18, 
U.S.C., 1940 ed., which, by reference, was made applicable to this 
section.


                               Amendments

    1994--Pub. L. 103-322 substituted ``fined under this title'' for 
``fined not more than $1,000''.