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    18 USC Sec. 914                                             01/05/2009

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    TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
    PART I - CRIMES
    CHAPTER 43 - FALSE PERSONATION

HEAD

    Sec. 914. Creditors of the United States

STATUTE

      Whoever falsely personates any true and lawful holder of any
    share or sum in the public stocks or debt of the United States, or
    any person entitled to any annuity, dividend, pension, wages, or
    other debt due from the United States, and, under color of such
    false personation, transfers or endeavors to transfer such public
    stock or any part thereof, or receives or endeavors to receive the
    money of such true and lawful holder thereof, or the money of any
    person really entitled to receive such annuity, dividend, pension,
    wages, or other debt, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned
    not more than five years, or both.

SOURCE

    (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 742; Pub. L. 103-322, title
    XXXIII, Sec. 330016(1)(K), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES

      Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 78 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch.
    321, Sec. 33, 35 Stat. 1095).
      Words "prize money" after "pension" were deleted as repealed by
    act Mar. 3, 1899, ch. 413, 30 Stat. 1007, repealing all laws
    authorizing prize money distribution.
      Mandatory punishment was rephrased in the alternative.
      In the punishment provision the words "five years" were
    substituted for "ten years" to harmonize it with the punishment
    provisions in sections 287 and 1001 of this title, covering similar
    offenses. (See reviser's note under section 287 of this title.)
                                AMENDMENTS
      1994 - Pub. L. 103-322 substituted "fined under this title" for
    "fined not more than $5,000".