---
kind: "section"
citation: "31 U.S.C. § 1519"
title: "31"
title_heading: "Money and Finance"
number: "1519"
heading: "Criminal penalty"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/31/1519"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — The Budget Process"
  - "Chapter 15 — Appropriation Accounting"
  - "Subchapter II — Apportionment"
---

# §1519. Criminal penalty


An officer or employee of the United States Government or of the District of Columbia government knowingly and willfully violating [section 1517(a) of this title](/usc/31/1517.md?p=a) shall be fined not more than $5,000, imprisoned for not more than 2 years, or both.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–258, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 932.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 1519 | 31:665(i)(1)(words after semicolon related to (h)). | R.S. § 3679(i)(1)(words after semicolon related to (h)); Mar. 3, 1905, ch. 1484, § 4(1st par.), 33 Stat. 1257; Feb. 27, 1906, ch. 510, § 3, 34 Stat. 48; restated Sept. 6, 1950, ch. 896, § 1211, 64 Stat. 768. |

The words “District of Columbia government” are added because of section 9 of the Act of June 26, 1912 (ch. 182, 37 Stat. 184).