18-U.S.C.-1017

§1017 – Government Seals Wrongfully Used and Instruments Wrongfully Sealed

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Title 18 > Part I > Chapter 47 > Section 1017

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• Reference: Section 1017
• Legend: §1017 – Government Seals Wrongfully Used and Instruments Wrongfully Sealed
• USCode Year: 2013

Provision Content

Whoever fraudulently or wrongfully affixes or impresses the seal of any department or agency of the United States, to or upon any certificate, instrument, commission, document, or paper or with knowledge of its fraudulent character, with wrongful or fraudulent intent, uses, buys, procures, sells, or transfers to another any such certificate, instrument, commission, document, or paper, to which or upon which said seal has been so fraudulently affixed or impressed, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 753; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, §330016(1)(K), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., §130 (June 15, 1917, ch. 30, title X, §1, 40 Stat. 227).

To clarify scope of section and in view of definition of department or agency in section 6 of this title, words department or agency were substituted for executive department, or of any bureau, commission, or office.

Slight verbal changes were also made.

Amendments

1994—Pub. L. 103–322 substituted fined under this title for fined not more than $5,000.

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