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legal-us-code default now covers every title.

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legal/us/code/title-18/chapter-47/section-1019.md

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+---
+type: "LegalText"
+title: "18 U.S.C. § 1019"
+description: "Certificates by consular officers"
+jurisdiction: "us"
+corpus: "united_states_code"
+kind: "code_section"
+title_number: 18
+title_name: "CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE"
+chapter_number: "47"
+chapter_name: "FRAUD AND FALSE STATEMENTS"
+section: "1019"
+citation: "18 U.S.C. § 1019"
+status: "current"
+release_point: "119-100"
+release_date: "2026-06-26"
+source: "official"
+source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc18@119-100.zip"
+source_identifier: "/us/usc/t18/s1019"
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+retrieved_at: "2026-07-04"
+confidence: "official"
+tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
+---
+
+# 18 U.S.C. § 1019 - Certificates by consular officers
+
+## Text
+
+Whoever, being a consul, or vice consul, or other person employed in the consular service of the United States, knowingly certifies falsely to any invoice, or other paper, to which his certificate is authorized or required by law, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
+
+(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 753; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(L), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)
+
+## Notes
+
+Historical and Revision NotesBased on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 127 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, § 70, 35 Stat. 1101). Mandatory punishment provision was rephrased in the alternative. Changes were made in phraseology.
+
+Editorial Notes
+
+Amendments1994—Pub. L. 103–322 substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $10,000”.