 
                             PART I--CRIMES
 
                 CHAPTER 25--COUNTERFEITING AND FORGERY
 
Sec. 480. Possessing counterfeit foreign obligations or 
        securities
        
    Whoever, within the United States, knowingly and with intent to 
defraud, possesses or delivers any false, forged, or counterfeit bond, 
certificate, obligation, security, treasury note, bill, promise to pay, 
bank note, or bill issued by a bank or corporation of any foreign 
country, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one 
year, or both.

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


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 274 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 
321, Sec. 160, 35 Stat. 1118).
    Mandatory punishment provision was rephrased in the alternative.
    Changes were also made in phraseology.


                               Amendments

    1994--Pub. L. 103-322 substituted ``fined under this title'' for 
``fined not more than $1,000''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

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