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title: "18 U.S.C. § 4012"
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# 18 U.S.C. § 4012 - Summary seizure and forfeiture of prison contraband
## Text
An officer or employee of the Bureau of Prisons may, pursuant to rules and regulations of the Director of the Bureau of Prisons, summarily seize any object introduced into a Federal penal or correctional facility or possessed by an inmate of such a facility in violation of a rule, regulation or order promulgated by the Director, and such object shall be forfeited to the United States.
(Added Pub. L. 98473, title II, § 1109(d), Oct. 12, 1984, 98 Stat. 2148.)