{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/s1954","title":18,"num":"\u00a7\u202f1954.","heading":"Offer, acceptance, or solicitation to influence operations of employee benefit plan","text":"\u00a7\u202f1954.\nOffer, acceptance, or solicitation to influence operations of employee benefit plan\nWhoever being\u2014\n(1) an administrator, officer, trustee, custodian, counsel, agent, or employee of any employee welfare benefit plan or employee pension benefit plan; or\n(2) an officer, counsel, agent, or employee of an employer or an employer any of whose employees are covered by such plan; or\n(3) an officer, counsel, agent, or employee of an employee organization any of whose members are covered by such plan; or\n(4) a person who, or an officer, counsel, agent, or employee of an organization which, provides benefit plan services to such plan\nreceives or agrees to receive or solicits any fee, kickback, commission, gift, loan, money, or thing of value because of or with intent to be influenced with respect to, any of the actions, decisions, or other duties relating to any question or matter concerning such plan or any person who directly or indirectly gives or offers, or promises to give or offer, any fee, kickback, commission, gift, loan, money, or thing of value prohibited by this section, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both:\nProvided\nAs used in this section, the term (a) \u201cany employee welfare benefit plan\u201d or \u201cemployee pension benefit plan\u201d means any employee welfare benefit plan or employee pension benefit plan, respectively, subject to any provision of title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and (b) \u201cemployee organization\u201d and \u201cadministrator\u201d as defined respectively in sections 3(4) and (3)(16) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.","url":"https://projectusc.org/usc/t18/s1954.html","content":[{"t":"sec","id":"/us/usc/t18/s1954","children":[{"t":"num","text":"\u00a7\u202f1954."},{"t":"heading","text":"Offer, acceptance, or solicitation to influence operations of employee benefit plan","tail":"\n"},{"t":"chapeau","text":"Whoever being\u2014"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t18/s1954/1","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(1)"},{"t":"content","text":" an administrator, officer, trustee, custodian, counsel, agent, or employee of any employee welfare benefit plan or employee pension benefit plan; or","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t18/s1954/2","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(2)"},{"t":"content","text":" an officer, counsel, agent, or employee of an employer or an employer any of whose employees are covered by such plan; or","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t18/s1954/3","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(3)"},{"t":"content","text":" an officer, counsel, agent, or employee of an employee organization any of whose members are covered by such plan; or","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t18/s1954/4","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(4)"},{"t":"content","text":" a person who, or an officer, counsel, agent, or employee of an organization which, provides benefit plan services to such plan","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n\n"},{"t":"continuation","text":"receives or agrees to receive or solicits any fee, kickback, commission, gift, loan, money, or thing of value because of or with intent to be influenced with respect to, any of the actions, decisions, or other duties relating to any question or matter concerning such plan or any person who directly or indirectly gives or offers, or promises to give or offer, any fee, kickback, commission, gift, loan, money, or thing of value prohibited by this section, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both: ","children":[{"t":"text","text":"Provided","tail":", That this section shall not prohibit the payment to or acceptance by any person of bona fide salary, compensation, or other payments made for goods or facilities actually furnished or for services actually performed in the regular course of his duties as such person, administrator, officer, trustee, custodian, counsel, agent, or employee of such plan, employer, employee organization, or organization providing benefit plan services to such plan."}],"tail":"\n\n"},{"t":"continuation","text":"As used in this section, the term (a) \u201cany employee welfare benefit plan\u201d or \u201cemployee pension benefit plan\u201d means any employee welfare benefit plan or employee pension benefit plan, respectively, subject to any provision of title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and (b) \u201cemployee organization\u201d and \u201cadministrator\u201d as defined respectively in sections 3(4) and (3)(16) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.","tail":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"}]}]}