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    18 USC CHAPTER 17 - COINS AND CURRENCY                      01/03/2007

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                      CHAPTER 17 - COINS AND CURRENCY                  

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    Sec.                                                     
    331.        Mutilation, diminution, and falsification of coins.   
    332.        Debasement of coins; alteration of official scales, or
                 embezzlement of metals.                              
    333.        Mutilation of national bank obligations.              
    334.        Issuance of Federal Reserve or national bank notes.   
    335.        Circulation of obligations of expired corporations.   
    336.        Issuance of circulating obligations of less than $1.  
    337.        Coins as security for loans.                          

                                AMENDMENTS                            
      1965 - Pub. L. 89-81, title II, Sec. 212(b), July 23, 1965, 79
    Stat. 257, added item 337.

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    18 USC Sec. 331                                             01/03/2007

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    Sec. 331. Mutilation, diminution, and falsification of coins

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      Whoever fraudulently alters, defaces, mutilates, impairs,
    diminishes, falsifies, scales, or lightens any of the coins coined
    at the mints of the United States, or any foreign coins which are
    by law made current or are in actual use or circulation as money
    within the United States; or
      Whoever fraudulently possesses, passes, utters, publishes, or
    sells, or attempts to pass, utter, publish, or sell, or brings into
    the United States, any such coin, knowing the same to be altered,
    defaced, mutilated, impaired, diminished, falsified, scaled, or
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      Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five
    years, or both.

-SOURCE-
    (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 700; July 16, 1951, ch. 226, Sec.
    1, 65 Stat. 121; Pub. L. 103-322, title XXXIII, Sec. 330016(1)(I),
    Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

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                       HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES                   
      Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 279 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch.
    321, Sec. 165, 35 Stat. 1119).
      Mandatory punishment provision was rephrased in the alternative.
      Reference to persons causing or procuring was omitted as
    unnecessary in view of definition of "principal" in section 2 of
    this title.
      Changes were also made in phraseology.

                                AMENDMENTS                            
      1994 - Pub. L. 103-322 substituted "fined under this title" for
    "fined not more than $2,000".
      1951 - Act July 16, 1951, made section applicable to minor coins
    (5-cent and 1-cent pieces), and to fraudulent alteration of coins.

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    18 USC Sec. 332                                             01/03/2007

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    Sec. 332. Debasement of coins; alteration of official scales, or
      embezzlement of metals

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      If any of the gold or silver coins struck or coined at any of the
    mints of the United States shall be debased, or made worse as to
    the proportion of fine gold or fine silver therein contained, or
    shall be of less weight or value than the same ought to be,
    pursuant to law, or if any of the scales or weights used at any of
    the mints or assay offices of the United States shall be defaced,
    altered, increased, or diminished through the fault or connivance
    of any officer or person employed at the said mints or assay
    offices, with a fraudulent intent; or if any such officer or person
    shall embezzle any of the metals at any time committed to his
    charge for the purpose of being coined, or any of the coins struck
    or coined at the said mints, or any medals, coins, or other moneys
    of said mints or assay offices at any time committed to his charge,
    or of which he may have assumed the charge, every such officer or
    person who commits any of the said offenses shall be fined under
    this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.

-SOURCE-
    (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 700; Pub. L. 103-322, title
    XXXIII, Sec. 330016(1)(L), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

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                       HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES                   
      Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 280 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch.
    321, Sec. 166, 35 Stat. 1120).
      Mandatory punishment provision was rephrased in the alternative.

                                AMENDMENTS                            
      1994 - Pub. L. 103-322 substituted "fined under this title" for
    "fined not more than $10,000".

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    18 USC Sec. 333                                             01/03/2007

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    Sec. 333. Mutilation of national bank obligations

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      Whoever mutilates, cuts, defaces, disfigures, or perforates, or
    unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank
    bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national
    banking association, or Federal Reserve bank, or the Federal
    Reserve System, with intent to render such bank bill, draft, note,
    or other evidence of debt unfit to be reissued, shall be fined
    under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.

-SOURCE-
    (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 700; Pub. L. 103-322, title
    XXXIII, Sec. 330016(1)(B), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2146.)

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                       HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES                   
      Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 291 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch.
    321, Sec. 176, 35 Stat. 1122).
      Words "or Federal Reserve bank, or the Federal Reserve System"
    were inserted because the paper of such banks has almost supplanted
    national bank currency.
      Reference to persons causing or procuring was omitted as
    unnecessary in view of definition of "principal" in section 2 of
    this title.
      Minor changes in phraseology were made.

                                AMENDMENTS                            
      1994 - Pub. L. 103-322 substituted "fined under this title" for
    "fined not more than $100".

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    18 USC Sec. 334                                             01/03/2007

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    Sec. 334. Issuance of Federal Reserve or national bank notes

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      Whoever, being a Federal Reserve Agent, or an agent or employee
    of such Federal Reserve Agent, or of the Board of Governors of the
    Federal Reserve System, issues or puts in circulation any Federal
    Reserve notes, without complying with or in violation of the
    provisions of law regulating the issuance and circulation of such
    Federal Reserve notes; or
      Whoever, being an officer acting under the provisions of chapter
    2 of Title 12, countersigns or delivers to any national banking
    association, or to any other company or person, any circulating
    notes contemplated by that chapter except in strict accordance with
    its provisions - 
      Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five
    years, or both.

-SOURCE-
    (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 700; Pub. L. 103-322, title
    XXXIII, Sec. 330016(1)(K), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

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                       HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES                   
      Based on sections 581 and 592 of title 12, U.S.C., 1940 ed.,
    Banks and Banking (R.S. Secs. 5187, 5209; Sept. 26, 1918, ch. 177,
    Sec. 7, 40 Stat. 972; Aug. 23, 1935, ch. 614, Sec. 316, 49 Stat.
    712).
      This section consolidates section 581 and part of section 592 of
    title 12, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Banks and Banking.
      The punishment provision was drawn from said section 592 as being
    the latest expression of congressional intent, in preference to the
    provision of said section 581 which authorized a fine "not more
    than double the amount so countersigned and delivered and
    imprisonment not more than 15 years".
      The words "shall be guilty of a misdemeanor" were omitted as
    unnecessary in view of definition of misdemeanor in section 1 of
    this title.
      Likewise the words "upon conviction in any district court of the
    United States" were omitted as unnecessary since punishment can
    follow only after conviction.
      (See reviser's note under section 656 of this title for statement
    of reasons for dividing said section 592 into three revised
    sections, with consequent changes in phraseology, style, and
    arrangement.)

                                AMENDMENTS                            
      1994 - Pub. L. 103-322 substituted "fined under this title" for
    "fined not more than $5,000".

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    18 USC Sec. 335                                             01/03/2007

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    Sec. 335. Circulation of obligations of expired corporations

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      Whoever, being a director, officer, or agent of a corporation
    created by Act of Congress, the charter of which has expired, or
    trustee thereof, or an agent of such trustee, or a person having in
    his possession or under his control the property of such
    corporation for the purpose of paying or redeeming its notes and
    obligations, knowingly issues, reissues, or utters as money, or in
    any other way knowingly puts in circulation any bill, note, check,
    draft, or other security purporting to have been made by any such
    corporation, or by any officer thereof, or purporting to have been
    made under authority derived therefrom, shall be fined under this
    title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

-SOURCE-
    (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 700; Pub. L. 103-322, title
    XXXIII, Sec. 330016(1)(L), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

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                       HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES                   
      Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 289 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch.
    321, Sec. 174, 35 Stat. 1122).
      The reference to persons aiding was omitted as unnecessary, since
    such persons are made principals by section 2 of this title.
      The last sentence excepting bona fide holders in due course was
    omitted as surplusage.
      Other changes in phraseology also were made.

                                AMENDMENTS                            
      1994 - Pub. L. 103-322 substituted "fined under this title" for
    "fined not more than $10,000".

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    18 USC Sec. 336                                             01/03/2007

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    Sec. 336. Issuance of circulating obligations of less than $1

-STATUTE-
      Whoever makes, issues, circulates, or pays out any note, check,
    memorandum, token, or other obligation for a less sum than $1,
    intended to circulate as money or to be received or used in lieu of
    lawful money of the United States, shall be fined under this title
    or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.

-SOURCE-
    (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 701; Pub. L. 103-322, title
    XXXIII, Sec. 330016(1)(G), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

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                       HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES                   
      Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 293 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch.
    321, Sec. 178, 35 Stat. 1122).
      Numerous suggestions, of which that of Mr. E. M. Million, of
    Arlington, Va., is typical, recommend that this section be omitted
    as obsolete or revised to except commercial obligations. However,
    since the decisions make it plain that only obligations intended to
    circulate as money are within the provisions of this section and
    that commercial checks of less than $1 are not affected, there
    seems no reason so to rewrite the section. (See U.S. v. Monongahela
    Bridge Co., Fed. Cas. No. 15,796; Stettinius v. U.S., Fed. Cas. No.
    13,387.)
      Minor changes were made in phraseology.

                                AMENDMENTS                            
      1994 - Pub. L. 103-322 substituted "fined under this title" for
    "fined not more than $500".

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    18 USC Sec. 337                                             01/03/2007

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    Sec. 337. Coins as security for loans

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      Whoever lends or borrows money or credit upon the security of
    such coins of the United States as the Secretary of the Treasury
    may from time to time designate by proclamation published in the
    Federal Register, during any period designated in such a
    proclamation, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not
    more than one year, or both.

-SOURCE-
    (Added Pub. L. 89-81, title II, Sec. 212(a), July 23, 1965, 79
    Stat. 257; amended Pub. L. 103-322, title XXXIII, Sec.
    330016(1)(L), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

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                                AMENDMENTS                            
      1994 - Pub. L. 103-322 substituted "fined under this title" for
    "fined not more than $10,000".

                              EFFECTIVE DATE                          
      Section 212(c) of Pub. L. 89-81 provided that: "The amendments
    made by this section [enacting this section] shall apply only with
    respect to loans made, renewed, or increased on or after the 31st
    day after the date of enactment of this Act [July 23, 1965]."

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