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18 U.S.C. § 477 — Possessing or selling impressions of tools used for obligations or securities
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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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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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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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TITLE 18—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
§ 477
tended to be used in printing, stamping, or im-
pressing 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 NOTES
Based 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 securi-
ties in section 8 of this title.
Changes in phraseology were also made.
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
2001—Pub. L. 107–56 inserted ‘‘analog, digital, or elec-
tronic image,’’ after ‘‘impression, stamp,’’ and sub-
stituted ‘‘25 years’’ for ‘‘ten years’’.
1994—Pub. L. 103–322 substituted ‘‘fined under this
title’’ for ‘‘fined not more than $5,000’’.
§ 477. Possessing or selling impressions of tools
used for obligations or securities
Whoever, with intent to defraud, possesses,
keeps, safeguards, or controls, without author-
ity from the United States, any imprint, stamp,
analog, digital, or electronic image, or impres-
sion, taken or made upon any substance or ma-
terial whatsoever, of any tool, implement, in-
strument or thing, used, fitted or intended to be
used, for any of the purposes mentioned in sec-
tion 476 of this title; or
Whoever, with intent to defraud, sells, gives,
or delivers any such imprint, stamp, analog, dig-
ital, or electronic image, or im
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