 
                             PART I--CRIMES
 
                 CHAPTER 25--COUNTERFEITING AND FORGERY
 
Sec. 477. Possessing or selling impressions of tools used for 
        obligations or securities
        
    Whoever, with intent to defraud, possesses, keeps, safeguards, or 
controls, without authority from the United States, any imprint, stamp, 
or impression, taken or made upon any substance or material whatsoever, 
of any tool, implement, instrument or thing, used, fitted or intended to 
be used, for any of the purposes mentioned in section 476 of this title; 
or
    Whoever, with intent to defraud, sells, gives, or delivers any such 
imprint, stamp, or impression to any other person--
    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. 267 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 
321, Sec. 153, 35 Stat. 1117).
    Changes in phraseology were 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, 981, 982 of this title.
