Title 40 — Public Buildings, Property, and WorksRelease 119-73
§17308 Presumption of lawful conduct
Title 40 › Subtitle SUBTITLE VI— - MISCELLANEOUS › Chapter CHAPTER 173— - GOVERNMENT LOSSES IN SHIPMENT › § 17308
Summary
If a federal officer, employee, or someone acting for a government-owned corporation ships valuables honestly and mostly follows the official shipping rules, their action is treated as doing their job properly. That also counts as meeting any bond or oath they have.
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Title 40, §17308
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For purposes of the propriety of an act or omission related to a shipment to which the regulations prescribed under section 17302 of this title apply, every officer and employee of the Federal Government and every individual acting on behalf of a wholly owned Government corporation who makes a shipment of valuables 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.
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Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 1730840:727.July 8, 1937, ch. 444, § 5, 50 Stat. 480.
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40 U.S.C. § 17308
Title 40 — Public Buildings, Property, and Works
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73