2013 US Code
Title 18 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Part I - CRIMES (§§ 1 - 2725)
Chapter 25 - COUNTERFEITING AND FORGERY (§§ 470 - 514)
Section 476 - Taking impressions of tools used for obligations or securities
Publication Title | United States Code, 2012 Edition, Supplement 1, Title 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE |
Category | Bills and Statutes |
Collection | United States Code |
SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
Contained Within | Title 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE PART I - CRIMES CHAPTER 25 - COUNTERFEITING AND FORGERY Sec. 476 - Taking impressions of tools used for obligations or securities |
Contains | section 476 |
Date | 2013 |
Laws in Effect as of Date | January 16, 2014 |
Positive Law | Yes |
Disposition | standard |
Source Credit | June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 707; Pub. L. 103-322, title XXXIII, §330016(1)(K), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147; Pub. L. 107-56, title III, §374(f), Oct. 26, 2001, 115 Stat. 341. |
Statutes at Large References | 35 Stat. 1117 62 Stat. 707 108 Stat. 2147 115 Stat. 341 |
Public Law References | Public Law 103-322, Public Law 107-56 |
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Whoever, without authority from the United States, takes, procures, or makes an impression, stamp, analog, digital, or electronic image, or imprint of, from or by the use of any tool, implement, instrument, or thing used or fitted or intended to be used in printing, stamping, or impressing, or in making other tools, implements, instruments, or things to be used or fitted or intended to be used in printing, stamping, or impressing any obligation or other security of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 25 years, or both.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 707; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, §330016(1)(K), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147; Pub. L. 107–56, title III, §374(f), Oct. 26, 2001, 115 Stat. 341.)
HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTESBased on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., §266 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, §152, 35 Stat. 1117).
Enumeration of substances on which impressions could be made and enumeration of various kinds of tools to be used were omitted as unnecessary.
Reference to circulating note or evidence of debt was omitted in view of definition of obligations and securities in section 8 of this title.
Changes in phraseology were also made.
AMENDMENTS2001—Pub. L. 107–56 inserted "analog, digital, or electronic image," after "impression, stamp," and substituted "25 years" for "ten years".
1994—Pub. L. 103–322 substituted "fined under this title" for "fined not more than $5,000".
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