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US Code · Through Public Law 119-103 (09/02/2026)

18 U.S.C. § 477: Possessing or selling impressions of tools used for obligations or securities

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  1. Title 18—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
  2. CHAPTER 25—COUNTERFEITING AND FORGERY

Whoever, with intent to defraud, possesses, keeps, safeguards, or controls, without authority from the United States, any imprint, stamp, analog, digital, or electronic image, 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, analog, digital, or electronic image, or impression to any other person— Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 25 years, or both.

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