18 U.S.C. § 1018

Official certificates or writings

Whoever, being a public officer or other person authorized by any law of the United States to make or give a certificate or other writing, knowingly makes and delivers as true such a certificate or writing, containing any statement which he knows to be false, in a case where the punishment thereof is not elsewhere expressly provided by law, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

( June 25, 1948, ch. 645 , 62 Stat. 753 ; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(G) , Sept. 13, 1994 , 108 Stat. 2147 .)