TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
PART I - CRIMES
CHAPTER 25 - COUNTERFEITING AND FORGERY
HEAD
Sec. 472. Uttering counterfeit obligations or securities
STATUTE
Whoever, with intent to defraud, passes, utters, publishes, or
sells, or attempts to pass, utter, publish, or sell, or with like
intent brings into the United States or keeps in possession or
conceals any falsely made, forged, counterfeited, or altered
obligation or other security of the United States, shall be fined
under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.
SOURCE
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 705; Pub. L. 103-322, title
XXXIII, Sec. 330016(1)(K), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147; Pub. L.
107-56, title III, Sec. 374(c), Oct. 26, 2001, 115 Stat. 340.)
HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES
Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 265 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch.
321, Sec. 151, 35 Stat. 1116).
Mandatory punishment provision was rephrased in the alternative.
Changes in phraseology were made.
AMENDMENTS
2001 - Pub. L. 107-56 substituted "20 years" for "fifteen years".
1994 - Pub. L. 103-322 substituted "fined under this title" for
"fined not more than $5,000".
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