{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/s476","title_num":"18","num":"§ 476.","heading":"Taking impressions of tools used for obligations or securities","status":null,"guid":"idbbd90319-4aa6-11eb-bce4-d6beeb6aa2d0","source_credit":"(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 707; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(K), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147; Pub. L. 107–56, title III, § 374(f), Oct. 26, 2001, 115 Stat. 341.)","seq_in_title":168,"parent_identifier":"/us/usc/t18/ptI/ch25","ancestors":[{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18","level":"title","num":"Title 18—","heading":"CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/ptI","level":"part","num":"PART I—","heading":"CRIMES","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/ptI/ch25","level":"chapter","num":"CHAPTER 25—","heading":"COUNTERFEITING AND FORGERY","status":null,"is_section":false}],"xml":"<section xmlns=\"http://xml.house.gov/schemas/uslm/1.0\" xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" xmlns:dcterms=\"http://purl.org/dc/terms/\" style=\"-uslm-lc:I80\" id=\"id7463f37d-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t18/s476\"><num value=\"476\">§ 476.</num><heading> Taking impressions of tools used for obligations or securities</heading><content>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\">Whoever, without authority from the United States, takes, procures, or makes an impression, stamp, analog, digital, or electronic image, or imprint of, from or by the use of any tool, implement, instrument, or thing used or fitted or intended to be used in printing, stamping, or impressing, or in making other tools, implements, instruments, or things to be used or fitted or intended to be used in printing, stamping, or impressing any obligation or other security of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 25 years, or both.</p>\n</content><sourceCredit id=\"id7463f37e-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\">(<ref href=\"/us/act/1948-06-25/ch645\">June 25, 1948, ch. 645</ref>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/62/707\">62 Stat. 707</ref>; <ref href=\"/us/pl/103/322/tXXXIII/s330016/1/K\">Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(K)</ref>, <date date=\"1994-09-13\">Sept. 13, 1994</date>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/108/2147\">108 Stat. 2147</ref>; <ref href=\"/us/pl/107/56/tIII/s374/f\">Pub. L. 107–56, title III, § 374(f)</ref>, <date date=\"2001-10-26\">Oct. 26, 2001</date>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/115/341\">115 Stat. 341</ref>.)</sourceCredit>\n<notes type=\"uscNote\" id=\"id7463f37f-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\">\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" topic=\"historicalAndRevision\" id=\"id7463f380-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\"><heading class=\"centered smallCaps\">Historical and Revision Notes</heading><p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 266 (<ref href=\"/us/act/1909-03-04/ch321/s152\">Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, § 152</ref>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/35/1117\">35 Stat. 1117</ref>).</p>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">Enumeration of substances on which impressions could be made and enumeration of various kinds of tools to be used were omitted as unnecessary.</p>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">Reference to circulating note or evidence of debt was omitted in view of definition of obligations and securities in <ref href=\"/us/usc/t18/s8\">section 8 of this title</ref>.</p>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">Changes in phraseology were also made.</p>\n</note>\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" role=\"crossHeading\" topic=\"editorialNotes\" id=\"id7463f381-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\"><heading class=\"centered\"><b>Editorial Notes</b></heading></note>\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" topic=\"amendments\" id=\"id7463f382-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\"><heading class=\"centered smallCaps\">Amendments</heading><p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">2001—<ref href=\"/us/pl/107/56\">Pub. L. 107–56</ref> inserted “analog, digital, or electronic image,” after “impression, stamp,” and substituted “25 years” for “ten years”.</p>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">1994—<ref href=\"/us/pl/103/322\">Pub. L. 103–322</ref> substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $5,000”.</p>\n</note>\n</notes>\n</section>","provision":null,"duplicates":[],"release":{"label":"116-252","currency_date":"2020-12-22","congress":116,"law_num":252,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":222,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["18","20","31","34","40","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"served_from":{"label":"116-252","currency_date":"2020-12-22","congress":116,"law_num":252,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":222,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["18","20","31","34","40","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"content_first_seen":{"label":"116-214","currency_date":"2020-12-05","congress":116,"law_num":214,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":218,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["02","09","11a","15","16","18","18a","20","21","22","28a","31","37","38","39","40","41","51","52","54"],"ingested_titles":[]},"is_exact":true,"note":null}