---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 2072"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "2072"
heading: "False crop reports"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/2072"
units:
  - "Part I — Crimes"
  - "Chapter 101 — Records and Reports"
---

# §2072. False crop reports


Whoever, being an [officer or employee](/usc/18/202.md?p=a) of the [United States](/usc/18/5.md) or any of its [agencies](/usc/18/6.md), whose duties require the compilation or report of statistics or information relating to the products of the soil, knowingly compiles for issuance, or issues, any false statistics or information as a report of the [United States](/usc/18/5.md) or any of its [agencies](/usc/18/6.md), shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.


## Source credit

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 795; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(K), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 215 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, § 124, 35 Stat. 1111).

Words “or any of its agencies” were inserted after “United States” so as to eliminate any possible ambiguity as to scope of section. (See definitive section 6 of this title.)

Minor changes were made in phraseology.

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1994—Pub. L. 103–322 substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $5,000”.