§ 477. — Possessing or selling impressions of tools used for obligations or securities.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 18USC477]
TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
PART I--CRIMES
CHAPTER 25--COUNTERFEITING AND FORGERY
Sec. 477. Possessing or selling impressions of tools used for
obligations or securities
Whoever, with intent to defraud, possesses, keeps, safeguards, or
controls, without authority from the United States, any imprint, stamp,
analog, digital, or electronic image, or impression, taken or made upon
any substance or material whatsoever, of any tool, implement, instrument
or thing, used, fitted or intended to be used, for any of the purposes
mentioned in section 476 of this title; or
Whoever, with intent to defraud, sells, gives, or delivers any such
imprint, stamp, analog, digital, or electronic image, or impression to
any other person--
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 25
years, or both.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 707; Pub. L. 103-322, title XXXIII,
Sec. 330016(1)(K), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147; Pub. L. 107-56, title
III, Sec. 374(g), Oct. 26, 2001, 115 Stat. 341.)
Historical and Revision Notes
Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 267 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch.
321, Sec. 153, 35 Stat. 1117).
Changes in phraseology were made.
Amendments
2001--Pub. L. 107-56 inserted ``analog, digital, or electronic
image,'' after ``imprint, stamp,'' in first and second pars. and
substituted ``25 years'' for ``ten years'' in third par.
1994--Pub. L. 103-322 substituted ``fined under this title'' for
``fined not more than $5,000''.
Termination Date of 2001 Amendment
Amendments by title III of Pub. L. 107-56 to terminate effective on
and after the first day of fiscal year 2005 if Congress enacts a joint
resolution that such amendments no longer have the force of law, see
section 303 of Pub. L. 107-56, set out as a Four-Year Congressional
Review; Expedited Consideration note under section 5311 of Title 31,
Money and Finance.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 981, 982 of this title.
