---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 U.S.C. § 60"
title: "19"
title_heading: "Customs Duties"
number: "60"
heading: "Penalty for extortion"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/19/60"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Collection Districts, Ports, and Officers"
---

# §60. Penalty for extortion


Every officer of the customs who demands or receives any other or greater fee, compensation, or reward than is allowed by law, for performing any duty or [service](/usc/19/2576b.md?p=4) required from him by law, shall be liable to a penalty of $200 for each offense, recoverable to the use of the party aggrieved.


## Source credit

(R.S. § 2636.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

R.S. § 2636 derived from act Mar. 2, 1799, ch. 22, § 73, 1 Stat. 680.