                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                             PART I--CRIMES
 
                 CHAPTER 25--COUNTERFEITING AND FORGERY
 
Sec. 510. Forging endorsements on Treasury checks or bonds or 
        securities of the United States
        
    (a) Whoever, with intent to defraud--
        (1) falsely makes or forges any endorsement or signature on a 
    Treasury check or bond or security of the United States; or
        (2) passes, utters, or publishes, or attempts to pass, utter, or 
    publish, any Treasury check or bond or security of the United States 
    bearing a falsely made or forged endorsement or signature;

shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, 
or both.

    (b) Whoever, with knowledge that such Treasury check or bond or 
security of the United States is stolen or bears a falsely made or 
forged endorsement or signature buys, sells, exchanges, receives, 
delivers, retains, or conceals any such Treasury check or bond or 
security of the United States shall be fined under this title or 
imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.
    (c) If the face value of the Treasury check or bond or security of 
the United States or the aggregate face value, if more than one Treasury 
check or bond or security of the United States, does not exceed $1,000, 
in any of the above-mentioned offenses, the penalty shall be a fine of 
\1\ under this title or imprisonment for not more than one year, or 
both.
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(Added Pub. L. 98-151, Sec. 115(a), Nov. 14, 1983, 97 Stat. 976; amended 
Pub. L. 101-647, title XXXV, Sec. 3514, Nov. 29, 1990, 104 Stat. 4923; 
Pub. L. 103-322, title XXXIII, Sec. 330016(1)(H), (L), Sept. 13, 1994, 
108 Stat. 2147; Pub. L. 104-294, title VI, Secs. 602(e), 606(b), Oct. 
11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3503, 3511.)


                               Amendments

    1996--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 104-294, Sec. 602(e), struck out ``that 
in fact is stolen or bears a forged or falsely made endorsement or 
signature'' after ``bond or security of the United States''.
    Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 104-294, Sec. 606(b), substituted ``$1,000'' 
for ``$500''.
    1994--Subsecs. (a), (b). Pub. L. 103-322, Sec. 330016(1)(L), 
substituted ``fined under this title'' for ``fined not more than 
$10,000''.
    Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 103-322, Sec. 330016(1)(H), substituted ``fined 
under this title'' for ``fined not more than $1,000''.
    1990--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 101-647 inserted semicolon after ``or 
signature'' in par. (2) and moved provisions beginning with ``shall be 
fined'' flush with left margin.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 981, 982, 3056 of this 
title.
