18 U.S.C. § 443 : US Code - Section 443: War contracts

Search 18 U.S.C. § 443 : US Code - Section 443: War contracts

Whoever willfully secretes, mutilates, obliterates, or destroys -

(a) any records of a war contractor relating to the
negotiation, award, performance, payment, interim financing,
cancellation or other termination, or settlement of a war
contract of $25,000 or more; or
(b) any records of a war contractor or purchaser relating to
any disposition of termination inventory in which the
consideration received by any war contractor or any government
agency is $5,000 or more,
before the lapse of (1) five years after such disposition of
termination inventory by such war contractor or government agency,
or (2) five years after the final settlement of such war contract,
whichever applicable period is longer, shall be fined under this
title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
The Administrator of General Services, by regulation, may
authorize the destruction of such records upon such terms and
conditions as he deems appropriate, including the requirement for
the making and retaining of photographs or microphotographs, which
shall have the same force and effect as the originals thereof.
The definitions of terms in section 103 of Title 41 shall apply
to similar terms used in this section.