---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 U.S.C. § 17308"
title: "40"
title_heading: "Public Buildings, Property, and Works"
number: "17308"
heading: "Presumption of lawful conduct"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/40/17308"
units:
  - "Subtitle VI — Miscellaneous"
  - "Chapter 173 — Government Losses in Shipment"
---

# §17308. Presumption of lawful conduct


For purposes of the propriety of an act or omission related to a [shipment](/usc/40/17301.md?p=2) to which the regulations prescribed under [section 17302 of this title](/usc/40/17302.md) apply, every officer and employee of the [Federal Government](/usc/40/17101.md?p=1) and every individual acting on behalf of a [wholly owned Government corporation](/usc/40/17301.md?p=4) who makes a [shipment](/usc/40/17301.md?p=2) of [valuables](/usc/40/17301.md?p=3-A) in good faith under, and substantially in accordance with, the regulations is deemed to be acting in the faithful execution of the officer’s, employee’s, or individual’s duties of office and in full performance of any conditions of the officer’s, employee’s, or individual’s bond and oath of office.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1283.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 17308 | 40:727. | July 8, 1937, ch. 444, § 5, 50 Stat. 480. |