---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 U.S.C. § 1918"
title: "28"
title_heading: "Judiciary and Judicial Procedure"
number: "1918"
heading: "District courts; fines, forfeitures and criminal proceedings"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/28/1918"
units:
  - "Part V — Procedure"
  - "Chapter 123 — Fees and Costs"
---

# §1918. District courts; fines, forfeitures and criminal proceedings

- (a) Costs shall be included in any judgment, order, or decree rendered against any person for the violation of an Act of Congress in which a civil fine or forfeiture of property is provided for.
- (b) Whenever any conviction for any offense not capital is obtained in a district court, the court may order that the defendant pay the costs of prosecution.

## Source credit

(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 955.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 822 (R.S. § 974).

Changes were made in phraseology.