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[CITE: 18USC605]

 
                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                             PART I--CRIMES
 
             CHAPTER 29--ELECTIONS AND POLITICAL ACTIVITIES
 
Sec. 605. Disclosure of names of persons on relief

    Whoever, for political purposes, furnishes or discloses any list or 
names of persons receiving compensation, employment or benefits provided 
for or made possible by any Act of Congress appropriating, or 
authorizing the appropriation of funds for work relief or relief 
purposes, to a political candidate, committee, campaign manager, or to 
any person for delivery to a political candidate, committee, or campaign 
manager; and
    Whoever receives any such list or names for political purposes--
    Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one 
year, or both.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 722; 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. 61e, 61g (Aug. 2, 1939, 
11:50 a.m., E.S.T., ch. 410, Secs. 6, 8, 53 Stat. 1148).
    This section consolidates sections 61e and 61g of title 18, U.S.C., 
1940 ed.
    Reference to persons aiding or assisting, contained in words ``or to 
aid or assist in furnishing or disclosing'' was omitted as unnecessary 
as such persons are made principals by section 2 of this title.
    Changes were made in phraseology.


                               Amendments

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