---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 3074"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "3074"
heading: "Exception of governmental officials"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/3074"
units:
  - "Part II — Criminal Procedure"
  - "Chapter 204 — Rewards for Information Concerning Terrorist Acts and Espionage"
---

# §3074. Exception of governmental officials


No officer or employee of any governmental entity who, while in the performance of his or her official duties, furnishes the information described in [section 3071](/usc/18/3071.md) shall be eligible for any monetary reward under this chapter.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 98–533, title I, § 101(a), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2707.)