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[CITE: 18USC21]

 
                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                             PART I--CRIMES
 
                      CHAPTER 1--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 21. Stolen or counterfeit nature of property for certain 
        crimes defined
        
    (a) Wherever in this title it is an element of an offense that--
        (1) any property was embezzled, robbed, stolen, converted, 
    taken, altered, counterfeited, falsely made, forged, or obliterated; 
    and
        (2) the defendant knew that the property was of such character;

such element may be established by proof that the defendant, after or as 
a result of an official representation as to the nature of the property, 
believed the property to be embezzled, robbed, stolen, converted, taken, 
altered, counterfeited, falsely made, forged, or obliterated.
    (b) For purposes of this section, the term ``official 
representation'' means any representation made by a Federal law 
enforcement officer (as defined in section 115) or by another person at 
the direction or with the approval of such an officer.

(Added Pub. L. 103-322, title XXXII, Sec. 320910(a), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 
Stat. 2127.)