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18 U.S.C. § 476 — Taking impressions of tools used for obligations or securities
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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.
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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.
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The term “obligation or other security of the United States” includes all bonds, certificates of indebtedness, national bank currency, Federal Reserve notes, Federal Reserve bank notes, coupons, United States notes, Treasury notes, gold certificates, silver certificates, fractional notes, certificates of deposit, bills, checks, or drafts for money, drawn by or upon authorized officers of the United States, stamps and other representatives of value, of whatever denomination, issued under any Act of Congress, and canceled United States stamps.
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Whoever, with intent to defraud, possesses, keeps, safeguards, or controls, without authority from the United States, any imprint, stamp, analog, digital, or electronic image, or impression, taken or made upon any substance or material whatsoever, of any tool, implement, instrument or thing, used, fitted or intended to be used, for any of the purposes mentioned in [section 476 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title18-section476&num=0&edition=prelim); or
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TITLE 18—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
§ 476
1996—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 104–208, §§ 101(f) [title VI,
§ 648(a)] and 2603(a), amended subsec. (a) identically,
substituting ‘‘class B felony’’ for ‘‘class C felony’’ in
last par.
1992—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 102–550, § 1552(1)–(4), des-
ignated existing provisions as subsec. (a), in sixth un-
designated par., substituted ‘‘United States—’’ for
‘‘United States; or’’ at end, struck out seventh undesig-
nated par. which read as follows: ‘‘Whoever has or re-
tains in his control or possession, after a distinctive
paper has been adopted by the Secretary of the Treas-
ury for the obligations and other securities of the
United States, any similar paper adapted to the mak-
ing of any such obligation or other security, except
under the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury or
some other proper officer of the United States—’’, and
amended last undesignated par. generally. Prior to
amendment, last par. read as follows: ‘‘Shall be fined
not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than fif-
teen years, or both.’’
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 102–550, § 1552(5), added subsec. (b).
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1996 AMENDMENT
Pub. L. 104–208, div. A, title I, § 101(f) [title VI,
§ 648(c)], Sept. 30, 1996, 110 Stat. 3009–314, 3009–368, pro-
vided that: ‘‘This section [enacting section 514 of this
title and amending this section and section 474A of this
title] and the amendments made by this section shall
become effective on the date of enactment of this Act
[Sept. 30, 1996] and shall remain in effect during each
fiscal year following that date of enactment.’’
§ 474A. Deterrents to counterfeiting of obliga-
tions and securities
(a) Whoever has in his control or possession,
after a distinc
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