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[CITE: 12USC421]

 
                       TITLE 12--BANKS AND BANKING
 
                    CHAPTER 3--FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
 
                  SUBCHAPTER XII--FEDERAL RESERVE NOTES
 
Sec. 421. Examination of plates and dies

    The Secretary of the Treasury may examine the plates, dies, bed 
pieces, and other material used in the printing of Federal Reserve notes 
and issue regulations relating to such examinations.

(Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, Sec. 16 (par.), 38 Stat. 267; Pub. L. 103-325, 
title VI, Sec. 602(g)(6), Sept. 23, 1994, 108 Stat. 2293.)

                          Codification

    Section is comprised of eleventh par. of section 16 of act Dec. 23, 
1913. For classification to this title of other pars. of section 16, see 
Codification note set out under section 411 of this title.


                               Amendments

    1994--Pub. L. 103-325 amended section generally. Prior to amendment, 
section read as follows: ``The examination of plates, dies, bed pieces, 
and so forth, and regulations relating to such examination of plates, 
dies, and so forth, of national-bank notes provided for in section 108 
of this title, is extended to include notes herein provided for.''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 348, 420, 467 of this title.
