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18 U.S.C. § 502 — Postage and revenue stamps of foreign governments
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Whoever forges, or counterfeits, or knowingly utters or uses any forged or counterfeit postage stamp or revenue stamp of any foreign government, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
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Whoever forges, or counterfeits, or knowingly utters or uses any forged or counterfeit postage stamp or revenue stamp of any foreign government, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
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Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the following are permitted:
(1) The printing, publishing, or importation, or the making or importation of the necessary plates for such printing or publishing, of illustrations of—
(A) postage stamps of the United States,
(B) revenue stamps of the United States,
(C) any other obligation or other security of the United States, and
(D) postage stamps, revenue stamps, notes, bonds, and any other obligation or other security of any foreign government, bank, or corporation.
Illustrations permitted by the foregoing provisions of this section shall be made in accordance with the following conditions—
(i) all illustrations shall be in black and white, except that illustrations of postage stamps issued by the United States or by any foreign government and stamps issued under the Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act of 1934 may be in color;
(ii) all illustrations (including illustrations of uncanceled postage stamps in color and illustrations of stamps issued under the Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act of 1934 in color) shall be of a size less than three-fourths or more than one and one-half, in linear dimension, of each part of any matter so illustrated which is covered by subparagraph (A), (B), (C), or (D) of this paragraph, except that black and white illustrations of postage and revenue stamps issued by the United States or by any foreign government and colored illustrations of canceled postage stamps issued by the United States may be in the exact linear dimension in which the stamps were issued; and
(iii) the negatives and plates used in making the illustrations shall be destroyed after their final use in accordance with this section.The Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe regulations to permit c
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The term “foreign government”, as used in this title except in sections 112, 878, 970, 1116, and 1201, includes any government, faction, or body of insurgents within a country with which the United States is at peace, irrespective of recognition by the United States.
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TITLE 18—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
§ 504
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1970 AMENDMENT
Amendment by Pub. L. 91–375 effective within 1 year
after Aug. 12, 1970, on date established therefor by the
Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service
and published by it in the Federal Register, see section
15(a) of Pub. L. 91–375, set out as an Effective Date note
preceding section 101 of Title 39, Postal Service.
§ 501. Postage stamps, postage meter stamps, and
postal cards
Whoever forges or counterfeits any postage
stamp, postage meter stamp, or any stamp
printed upon any stamped envelope, or postal
card, or any die, plate, or engraving thereof; or
Whoever makes or prints, or knowingly uses
or sells, or possesses with intent to use or sell,
any such forged or counterfeited postage stamp,
postage meter stamp, stamped envelope, postal
card, die, plate, or engraving; or
Whoever makes, or knowingly uses or sells, or
possesses with intent to use or sell, any paper
bearing the watermark of any stamped envelope,
or postal card, or any fraudulent imitation
thereof; or
Whoever makes or prints, or authorizes to be
made or printed, any postage stamp, postage
meter stamp, stamped envelope, or postal card,
of the kind authorized and provided by the Post
Office Department or by the Postal Service,
without the special authority and direction of
the Department or Postal Service; or
Whoever after such postage stamp, postage
meter stamp, stamped envelope, or postal card
has been printed, with intent to defraud, deliv-
ers the same to any person not authorized by an
instrument in writing, duly executed under the
hand of the Postmaster General and the seal of
the Post Office Department or the Postal Serv-
ice, to receive it—
Shall be fined under this ti
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