                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                             PART I--CRIMES
 
                     CHAPTER 17--COINS AND CURRENCY
 
Sec. 333. Mutilation of national bank obligations

    Whoever mutilates, cuts, defaces, disfigures, or perforates, or 
unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill, 
draft, note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national banking 
association, or Federal Reserve bank, or the Federal Reserve System, 
with intent to render such bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of 
debt unfit to be reissued, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned 
not more than six months, or both.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 700; Pub. L. 103-322, title XXXIII, 
Sec. 330016(1)(B), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2146.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 291 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 
321, Sec. 176, 35 Stat. 1122).
    Words ``or Federal Reserve bank, or the Federal Reserve System'' 
were inserted because the paper of such banks has almost supplanted 
national bank currency.
    Reference to persons causing or procuring was omitted as unnecessary 
in view of definition of ``principal'' in section 2 of this title.
    Minor changes in phraseology were made.


                               Amendments

    1994--Pub. L. 103-322 substituted ``fined under this title'' for 
``fined not more than $100''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 492 of this title.
