                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                             PART I--CRIMES
 
                 CHAPTER 47--FRAUD AND FALSE STATEMENTS
 
Sec. 1017. Government seals wrongfully used and instruments 
        wrongfully sealed
        
    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.

(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''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 14, 1717 of this title.
