---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 C.F.R. § 11.448"
title: "25"
number: "11.448"
heading: "Abuse of office."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/25/11.448"
---

# §11.448. Abuse of office.


A person acting or purporting to act in an official capacity or taking advantage of such actual or purported capacity commits a misdemeanor if, knowing that his or her conduct is illegal, he or she:

- (a) Subjects another to arrest, detention, search, seizure, mistreatment, dispossession, assessment, lien or other infringement of personal or property rights; or
- (b) **Denies or impedes another in the exercise or enjoyment of any right, privilege, power or immunity.**

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; R.S. 463, 25 U.S.C. 2; R.S. 465, 25 U.S.C. 9; 42 Stat. 208, 25 U.S.C. 13; 38 Stat. 586, 25 U.S.C. 200.

### Source

Source: 58 FR 54411, Oct. 21, 1993, unless otherwise noted.