---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 916"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "916"
heading: "4–H Club members or agents"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/916"
units:
  - "Part I — Crimes"
  - "Chapter 43 — False Personation"
---

# §916. 4–H Club members or agents


[Whoever](/usc/18/921.md?p=a-1), falsely and with intent to defraud, holds himself out as or represents or pretends himself to be a member of, associated with, or an agent or representative for the 4–H clubs, an [organization](/usc/18/2256.md?p=4) established by the Extension Service of the [United States](/usc/18/229F.md?p=9) Department of Agriculture and the land grant colleges, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.


## Source credit

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 743; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(F), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 76c (June 5, 1939, ch. 184, § 1, 53 Stat. 809).

Section 76c of title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., was incorporated in this section and section 707 of this title.

Reference to offense as a misdemeanor was omitted in view of definitive section 1 of this title. Words “upon conviction thereof” were omitted, since criminal punishment can follow only after conviction.

Minor changes were made in phraseology.

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1994—Pub. L. 103–322 substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $300”.