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    18 USC Sec. 333                                             01/05/2009

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

HEAD

    Sec. 333. Mutilation of national bank obligations

STATUTE

      Whoever mutilates, cuts, defaces, disfigures, or perforates, or
    unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank
    bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national
    banking association, or Federal Reserve bank, or the Federal
    Reserve System, with intent to render such bank bill, draft, note,
    or other evidence of debt unfit to be reissued, shall be fined
    under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.

SOURCE

    (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 700; Pub. L. 103-322, title
    XXXIII, Sec. 330016(1)(B), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2146.)

HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES

      Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 291 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch.
    321, Sec. 176, 35 Stat. 1122).
      Words "or Federal Reserve bank, or the Federal Reserve System"
    were inserted because the paper of such banks has almost supplanted
    national bank currency.
      Reference to persons causing or procuring was omitted as
    unnecessary in view of definition of "principal" in section 2 of
    this title.
      Minor changes in phraseology were made.
                                AMENDMENTS
      1994 - Pub. L. 103-322 substituted "fined under this title" for
    "fined not more than $100".