 
                             PART I--CRIMES
 
                 CHAPTER 25--COUNTERFEITING AND FORGERY
 
Sec. 479. Uttering counterfeit foreign obligations or securities

    Whoever, within the United States, knowingly and with intent to 
defraud, utters, passes, or puts off, in payment or negotiation, any 
false, forged, or counterfeited bond, certificate, obligation, security, 
treasury note, bill, or promise to pay, mentioned in section 478 of this 
title, whether or not the same was made, altered, forged, or 
counterfeited within the United States, shall be fined under this title 
or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 707; Pub. L. 103-322, title XXXIII, 
Sec. 330016(1)(J), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 271 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 
321, Sec. 157, 35 Stat. 1118).
    Mandatory punishment provision was rephrased in the alternative.
    Changes were made in phraseology.


                               Amendments

    1994--Pub. L. 103-322 substituted ``fined under this title'' for 
``fined not more than $3,000''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 14, 981, 982 of this title.
