---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 C.F.R. § 7.3"
title: "28"
number: "7.3"
heading: "Eligibility for reward."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/28/7.3"
---

# §7.3. Eligibility for reward.


A reward may be paid to any person, except an official or employee of the Department of Justice or a law-enforcement officer of the U.S. Government, who personally captures and surrenders an escaped Federal prisoner to proper officials, or who assists in the capture, of an escaped Federal prisoner.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 18 U.S.C. 3059.

### Source

Source: 25 FR 2420, Mar. 23, 1960, unless otherwise noted.