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    18 USC Sec. 1017                                            01/05/2009

EXPCITE

    TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
    PART I - CRIMES
    CHAPTER 47 - FRAUD AND FALSE STATEMENTS

HEAD

    Sec. 1017. Government seals wrongfully used and instruments
      wrongfully sealed

STATUTE

      Whoever fraudulently or wrongfully affixes or impresses the seal
    of any department or agency of the United States, to or upon any
    certificate, instrument, commission, document, or paper or with
    knowledge of its fraudulent character, with wrongful or fraudulent
    intent, uses, buys, procures, sells, or transfers to another any
    such certificate, instrument, commission, document, or paper, to
    which or upon which said seal has been so fraudulently affixed or
    impressed, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more
    than five years, or both.

SOURCE

    (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 753; 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. 130 (June 15, 1917, ch.
    30, title X, Sec. 1, 40 Stat. 227).
      To clarify scope of section and in view of definition of
    department or agency in section 6 of this title, words "department
    or agency" were substituted for "executive department, or of any
    bureau, commission, or office".
      Slight verbal changes were also made.
                                AMENDMENTS
      1994 - Pub. L. 103-322 substituted "fined under this title" for
    "fined not more than $5,000".