Possessing or selling impressions of tools used for obligations or securities
Official text prohibited actmental stateif conditionpenaltylegal term
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 or imprisoned not more than 25 years, or both.
History: (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 707 (PDF, 39 MB); Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, §330016(1)(K), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147 (PDF, 52 MB); Pub. L. 107–56, title III, §374(g), Oct. 26, 2001, 115 Stat. 341.)
Simplified explanation
It is a federal crime to keep, sell, give, or deliver impressions or digital images of the tools used to print U.S. money or securities, with intent to defraud.