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official that the interest is not so substantial as to be deemed likely to affect the integrity of the services which the Government may expect from such officer or employee, or (2) if, by general rule or regulation published in the Federal Register, the financial interest has been Publication in exempted from the requirements of clause (1) hereof as being too F. R. remote or too inconsequential to affect the integrity of Government officers' or employees' services. “8 209. Salary of Government officials and employees payable only

by United States “(a) Whoever receives any salary, or any contribution to or suppiementation of salary, as compensation for his services as an officer or employee of the executive branch of the United States Government, of any independent agency of the United States, or of the District of Columbia, from any source other than the Government of the United States, except as may be contributed out of the treasury of any State, county, or muricipality; or

“Whoever, whether an individual, partnership, association, corporation, or other organization pays, or makes any contribution to, or in any way supplements the salary of, any such officer or employee under circumstances which would make its receipt a violation of this subsection

“Shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

"(b) Nothing herein prevents an officer or employee of the executive branch of the United States Government, or of any independent agency of the United States, or of the District of Columbia, from continuing to participate in a bona fide pension, retirement, group life, health or accident insurance, profit-sharing, stock bonus, or other employee welfare or benefit plan maintained by a former employer.

"(c) This section does not apply to a special Government employee Exception. or to an officer or employee of the Government serving without compensation, whether or not he is a special Government employee, or to any person paying, contributing to, or supplementing his salary as such.

"(d) This section does not prohibit payment or acceptance of contributions, awards, or other expenses under the terms of the Government Employees Training Act (Public Law 85-507, 72 Stat. 327; 5 U.S.C. 2301-2319, July 7, 1958)."

(b) Sections 214 and 215 of chapter 11 of title 18 of the United States Code are respectively redesignated sections 210 and 211;

(c) Sections 216 and 223 of chapter 11 of title 18 of the United Repeal. Statés Code are repealed;

(d) Sections 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, and 222 of chapter 11 of title 18 of the United States Code are respectively redesignated sections 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, and 217;

(e) Chapter 11 of title 18 of the United States Code is further 18 USC 201 amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section: "& 218. Voiding transactions in violation of chapter; recovery by

the United States "In addition to any other remedies provided by law the President or, under regulations prescribed by him, the head of any department or agency involved, may declare void and rescind any contract, loan, grant, subsidy, license, right, permit, franchise, use, authority, privilege, benefit, certificate, ruling, decision, opinion, or rate schedule awarded, granted, paid, furnished, or published, or the performance of any service or transfer or delivery of any thing to, by or for any agency of the United States or officer or employee of the United States or person acting on behalf thereof, in relation to which there

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has been a final conviction for any violation of this chapter, and the United States shall be entitled to recover in addition to any penalty prescribed by law or in a contract the amount expended or the thing transferred or delivered on its behalf, or the reasonable value thereof.

SEC. 2. Sections 281 and 283 (except as they may apply to retired officers of the armed forces of the United States), 282 and 284 of chapter 15 of title 18, section 134 of chapter 23 of title 18, and section 1914 of chapter 93 of title 18 of the United States Code are repealed and will, respectively, be supplanted by sections 203, 205, 204, 207, 208, and 209 of title 18 of the United States Code as set forth in section 1 of this Act. All exemptions from the provisions of sections 281, 282, 283, 284, +34, or 1914 of title 18 of the United States Code heretofore created or anthorized by statute which are in force on the effective date of this Act shall, on and after that date, be deemed to be exemptions from sections 203, 204, 205, 207, 208, or 209, respectively, of title 18 of the United States Code except to the extent that they affect officers or employees of the executive branch of the United States Government, of any independent agency of the United States, or of the District of Columbia, as to whom they are no longer applicable.

Sec. 3. Section 190 of the Revised Statutes (5 U.S.C. 99) is repealed.

Sec. 4. This Act shall take effect ninety days after the date of its enactment.

Approved October 23, 1962.

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62 Stat. 826.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 3238 of title 18, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: "83238. Offenses not committed in any district .

“The trial of all offenses begun or committed upon the high seas, or elsewhere out of the jurisdiction of any particular State or district, shall be in the district in which the offender, or any one of two or more joint offenders, is arrested or is first brought; but if such offender or offenders are not so arrested or brought into any district, an indictment or information may be filed in the district of the last known residence of the offender or of any one of two or more joint offenders, or if no such residence is known the indictment or information may be filed in the District of Columbia.”

Approved May 23, 1963.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

HOUSE REPORT No. 98 (Judioiary Comm.).
SENATE REPORT No. 146 (Judiciary Comm.

1.). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 109:

Mar. 18, 1963; Passed House.
Apr. 25, 1963; Considered and passed Senate.
Apr. 26, 1963; Motion to reconsider entered in Senate.
May 8, 1963; Motion to reconsider withdrawn in Senate.

88th Congress, S. 1319
December 30, 1963

An Act

77 STAT. 834.

To amend chapter 35 of title 18, United States Code, with respect to the escape or attempted escape of juvenile delinquents.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the

United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 751 of Juvenile delintitle 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting the subsection quents, escape. symbol "(a)" at the beginning thereof, and by adding, immediately 62 Stat. 734. following subsection (a) of such section as hereby so designated,

a new subsection to read as follows:

(b) Whoever escapes or attempts to escape from the custody of the Attorney General or his authorized representative, or from any institution in which he is confined by direction of the Attorney General, or from any custody under or by virtue of any process issued under the laws of the United States by any court, judge, or commissioner, or from the custody of an officer or employee of the United States pursuant to lawful arrest, shall, if the custody or confinement is by virtue of a lawful arrest for a violation of any law of the United States not punishable by death or life imprisonment and committed before such person's eighteenth birthday, and as to whom the Attorney General has not specifically directed the institution of criminal proceedings, or by virtue of a commitment as a juvenile delinquent under section 5034 of this title, be fined not more than 62 Stat. 858; $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. Nothing 76 Stat. 52. herein contained shall be construed to affect the discretionary author

ity vested in the Attorney General pursuant to section 5032 of this 62 Stat. 857. title."

SEC. 2. Section 752 of such title is amended by inserting the sub- 62 Stat. 735: section symbol "(a)" at the beginning thereof, and by adding, immediately following subsection (a) of such section as hereby so designated, a new subsection to read as follows:

(b) Whoever rescues or attempts to rescue or instigates, aids, or assists the escape or attempted escape of any person in the custody of the Attorney General or his authorized representative, or of any person arrested upon a warrant or other process issued under any law of the United States or from any institution in which he is confined by direction of the Attorney General, shall, if the custody or confinement is by virtue of a lawful arrest for a violation of any law of the United States not punishable by death or life imprisonment and committed before such person's eighteenth birthday, and as to whom the Attorney General has not specifically directed the institution of criminal proceedings, or by virtue of a commitment as a juvenile delinquent under section 5034 of this title, be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.” Approved December 30, 1963.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

HOUSE REPORT No. 1014 Comm. on the Judiciary).
SENATE REPORT No. 684 (Comm. on the Judiciary).
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 109 (1963):

Dec. 6: Considered and passed Senate.

Dec. 17: Passed House, amended.

Dec. 19: Senate conourred in House amendments.

88th Congress, S. 741
June 6, 1964

An Act

To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit schemes in interstate or foreign commerce to influence by bribery sporting contests, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) chapter 11, United States Code (entitled "Bribery and Graft"), is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section:

"8224. Bribery in sporting contests

Sporting contests, bribery.

18 USC 201-218.

"(a) Whoever carries into effect, attempts to carry into effect, or Penalties. conspires with any other person to carry into effect any scheme in commerce to influence, in any way, by bribery any sporting contest,

with knowledge that the purpose of such scheme is to influence by 78 STAT. 203. bribery that contest, shall be fined not more than $10,000, or im- /78 STAT. 204. prisoned not more than 5 years, or both.

"(b) This section shall not be construed as indicating an intent on Jurisdiction. the part of Congress to occupy the field in which this section operates to the exclusion of a law of any State, territory, Commonwealth, or possession of the United States, and no law of any State, territory, Commonwealth, or possession of the United States, which would be valid in the absence of the section shall be declared invalid, and no local authorities shall be deprived of any jurisdiction over any offense over which they would have jurisdiction in the absence of this section. "(c) As used in this section

"(1) The term 'scheme in commerce' means any scheme.effectuated in whole or in part through the use in interstate or foreign commerce of any facility for transportation or communication;

"(2) The term 'sporting contest' means any contest in any sport, between individual contestants or teams of contestants (without regard to the amateur or professional status of the contestants therein), the occurrence of which is publicly announced before its occurrence;

"(3) The term 'person' means any individual and any partnership, corporation, association, or other entity."

(b) The analysis of chapter 11, title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new item: "224. Bribery in sporting contests."

Approved June 6, 1964.

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Vol. 109 (1963): Oct. 30, considered and passed Senate.
Jan. 22, considered and passed House, amended.
May 26, Senate concurred in House amendments.

Vol. 110 (1964):

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