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    18 USC Sec. 331                                             01/05/2009

EXPCITE

    TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
    PART I - CRIMES
    CHAPTER 17 - COINS AND CURRENCY

HEAD

    Sec. 331. Mutilation, diminution, and falsification of coins

STATUTE

      Whoever fraudulently alters, defaces, mutilates, impairs,
    diminishes, falsifies, scales, or lightens any of the coins coined
    at the mints of the United States, or any foreign coins which are
    by law made current or are in actual use or circulation as money
    within the United States; or
      Whoever fraudulently possesses, passes, utters, publishes, or
    sells, or attempts to pass, utter, publish, or sell, or brings into
    the United States, any such coin, knowing the same to be altered,
    defaced, mutilated, impaired, diminished, falsified, scaled, or
    lightened -
      Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five
    years, or both.

SOURCE

    (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 700; July 16, 1951, ch. 226, Sec.
    1, 65 Stat. 121; Pub. L. 103-322, title XXXIII, Sec. 330016(1)(I),
    Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES

      Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 279 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch.
    321, Sec. 165, 35 Stat. 1119).
      Mandatory punishment provision was rephrased in the alternative.
      Reference to persons causing or procuring was omitted as
    unnecessary in view of definition of "principal" in section 2 of
    this title.
      Changes were also made in phraseology.
                                AMENDMENTS
      1994 - Pub. L. 103-322 substituted "fined under this title" for
    "fined not more than $2,000".
      1951 - Act July 16, 1951, made section applicable to minor coins
    (5-cent and 1-cent pieces), and to fraudulent alteration of coins.
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