---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 4115"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "4115"
heading: "Execution of sentences imposing an obligation to make restitution or reparations"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/4115"
units:
  - "Part III — Prisons and Prisoners"
  - "Chapter 306 — Transfer to or from Foreign Countries"
---

# §4115. Execution of sentences imposing an obligation to make restitution or reparations


If in a [sentence](/usc/18/4101.md?p=h) issued in a penal proceeding of a transferring country an [offender](/usc/18/4101.md?p=e) transferred to the [United States](/usc/18/5.md) has been ordered to pay a sum of money to the victim of the offense for damage caused by the offense, that penalty or award of damages may be enforced as though it were a civil judgment rendered by a [United States](/usc/18/5.md) district court. Proceedings to collect the moneys ordered to be paid may be instituted by the Attorney General in any [United States](/usc/18/5.md) district court. Moneys recovered pursuant to such proceedings shall be transmitted through diplomatic channels to the [treaty](/usc/18/4101.md?p=k) authority of the transferring country for distribution to the victim.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 95–144, § 1, Oct. 28, 1977, 91 Stat. 1220.)