 
                             PART I--CRIMES
 
                 CHAPTER 25--COUNTERFEITING AND FORGERY
 
Sec. 476. Taking impressions of tools used for obligations or 
        securities
        
    Whoever, without authority from the United States, takes, procures, 
or makes an impression, stamp, 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 ten 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.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 266 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 
321, Sec. 152, 35 Stat. 1117).
    Enumeration of substances on which impressions could be made and 
enumeration of various kinds of tools to be used were omitted as 
unnecessary.
    Reference to circulating note or evidence of debt was omitted in 
view of definition of obligations and securities in section 8 of this 
title.
    Changes in phraseology 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, 477, 981, 982 of this 
title.
