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CITE

    18 USC Sec. 2314                                            01/05/2009

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    TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
    PART I - CRIMES
    CHAPTER 113 - STOLEN PROPERTY

HEAD

    Sec. 2314. Transportation of stolen goods, securities, moneys,
      fraudulent State tax stamps, or articles used in counterfeiting

STATUTE

      Whoever transports, transmits, or transfers in interstate or
    foreign commerce any goods, wares, merchandise, securities or
    money, of the value of $5,000 or more, knowing the same to have
    been stolen, converted or taken by fraud; or
      Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or
    artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of
    false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises,
    transports or causes to be transported, or induces any person or
    persons to travel in, or to be transported in interstate or foreign
    commerce in the execution or concealment of a scheme or artifice to
    defraud that person or those persons of money or property having a
    value of $5,000 or more; or
      Whoever, with unlawful or fraudulent intent, transports in
    interstate or foreign commerce any falsely made, forged, altered,
    or counterfeited securities or tax stamps, knowing the same to have
    been falsely made, forged, altered, or counterfeited; or
      Whoever, with unlawful or fraudulent intent, transports in
    interstate or foreign commerce any traveler's check bearing a
    forged countersignature; or
      Whoever, with unlawful or fraudulent intent, transports in
    interstate or foreign commerce, any tool, implement, or thing used
    or fitted to be used in falsely making, forging, altering, or
    counterfeiting any security or tax stamps, or any part thereof -
      Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten
    years, or both.
      This section shall not apply to any falsely made, forged,
    altered, counterfeited or spurious representation of an obligation
    or other security of the United States, or of an obligation, bond,
    certificate, security, treasury note, bill, promise to pay or bank
    note issued by any foreign government. This section also shall not
    apply to any falsely made, forged, altered, counterfeited, or
    spurious representation of any bank note or bill issued by a bank
    or corporation of any foreign country which is intended by the laws
    or usage of such country to circulate as money.

SOURCE

    (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 806; May 24, 1949, ch. 139, Sec.
    45, 63 Stat. 96; July 9, 1956, ch. 519, 70 Stat. 507; Pub. L. 87-
    371, Sec. 2, Oct. 4, 1961, 75 Stat. 802; Pub. L. 90-535, Sept. 28,
    1968, 82 Stat. 885; Pub. L. 100-690, title VII, Secs. 7057, 7080,
    Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4402, 4406; Pub. L. 101-647, title XII,
    Sec. 1208, Nov. 29, 1990, 104 Stat. 4832; Pub. L. 103-322, title
    XXXIII, Sec. 330016(1)(K), (L), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES

                                 1948 ACT
      Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Secs. 413, 415, 418, 418a,
    419 (May 22, 1934, ch. 333, Secs. 1, 3, 6, 48 Stat. 794, 795; May
    22, 1934, ch. 333, Sec. 7, as added Aug. 3, 1939, ch. 413, Sec. 5,
    53 Stat. 1179; May 22, 1934, ch. 333, Sec. 7, renumbered Sec. 8 by
    Aug. 3, 1939, ch. 413, Sec. 6, 53 Stat. 1179; Aug. 3, 1939, ch.
    413, Secs. 1, 4, 5, 53 Stat. 1178, 1179).
      Section consolidates sections 413, 415, 417, 418, 418a, and 419
    of title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed.
      Words "or with intent to steal or purloin, knowing the same to
    have been so stolen, converted, or taken" were omitted as
    surplusage, since property so "taken" is "stolen," and insertion of
    word "knowingly" after "Whoever" at beginning of section renders
    such omission possible.
      Reference to persons causing or procuring was omitted as
    unnecessary in view of definition of "principal" in section 2 of
    this title.
      Section 413 of title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., providing the short
    title "National Stolen Property Act," was omitted as not
    appropriate in a revision.
      Section 414 of title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., containing definitions
    of "interstate or foreign commerce," "securities," and "money," is
    incorporated in sections 10 and 2311 of this title.
      Section 417 of title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., relating to
    indictments and determination of "value" of goods, wares,
    merchandise, securities, and money referred to in indictments, is
    also incorporated in section 2311 of this title.
      Section 418 of title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., relating to venue, was
    omitted as completely covered by section 3237 of this title.
      Section 418a of title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., relating to
    conspiracy, was omitted as covered by section 371 of this title,
    the general conspiracy section.
      Section 419 of title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., providing that nothing
    contained in the National Stolen Property Act should be construed
    to repeal, modify, or amend any part of the National Motor Vehicle
    Theft Act, was omitted as unnecessary, in view of this revision and
    reenactment of the provisions of the latter act (sections 10, 2311-
    2313 of this title).
      Changes were made in phraseology and arrangement.
                                 1949 ACT
      This amendment [see section 45] restates and clarifies the first
    paragraph of section 2314 of title 18, U.S.C., to conform to the
    original law upon which the section is based.
                                AMENDMENTS
      1994 - Pub. L. 103-322, Sec. 330016(1)(L), substituted "fined
    under this title" for "fined not more than $10,000" in penultimate
    par.
      Pub. L. 103-322, Sec. 330016(1)(K), which directed the amendment
    of this section by striking "not more than $5,000" and inserting
    "under this title", could not be executed because the phrase "not
    more than $5,000" did not appear in text.
      1990 - Pub. L. 101-647 inserted "or foreign" after "interstate"
    in second par.
      1988 - Pub. L. 100-690, Sec. 7057(a), substituted "transports,
    transmits, or transfers" for "transports" in first par.
      Pub. L. 100-690, Sec. 7080, inserted "or persons" after "any
    person" and "or those persons" after "that person" in second par.
      Pub. L. 100-690, Sec. 7057(b), struck out "or by a bank or
    corporation of any foreign country" after "foreign government" in
    last par. and inserted at end "This section also shall not apply to
    any falsely made, forged, altered, counterfeited, or spurious
    representation of any bank note or bill issued by a bank or
    corporation of any foreign country which is intended by the laws or
    usage of such country to circulate as money."
      1968 - Pub. L. 90-535 prohibited transportation with unlawful or
    fraudulent intent in interstate or foreign commerce of traveler's
    checks bearing forged countersignatures.
      1961 - Pub. L. 87-371 inserted "or tax stamps" after "securities"
    in third par. and after "security" in fourth par., and "fraudulent
    State tax stamps," in section catchline.
      1956 - Act July 9, 1956, inserted par. relating to interstate
    transportation of persons in schemes to defraud.
      1949 - Act May 24, 1949, substituted "knowing the same to have
    been stolen, converted or taken by fraud" for "theretofore stolen,
    converted, or taken by fraud" in first par.