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18 U.S.C. § 331 — Mutilation, diminution, and falsification of coins

submitted 78 years ago by ch. 645 to r/title-18-CRIMES-AND-CRIMINAL-PROCEDURE · 101 words · no verdicts yet

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It's a federal crime to damage, alter, or lighten U.S. coins, or foreign coins used as money here. It's also a crime to knowingly pass or sell such altered coins. Violators can be fined or imprisoned up to five years.

This section makes two things illegal. First, it is illegal to fraudulently alter, deface, mutilate, impair, diminish, falsify, scale, or lighten coins made at U.S. mints, or foreign coins that are legally recognized as money, or actually used as money, within the United States. Second, it is illegal to fraudulently possess, pass, offer, publish, or sell -- or try to do any of these, or bring into the United States -- any coin, knowing it has been altered, defaced, mutilated, impaired, diminished, falsified, scaled, or lightened in this way. Anyone who does either of these things can be fined under this title, imprisoned for up to five years, or both.
the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

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 lightened—

Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

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

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit
  • 1948Enacted · Act of June 25, 1948, ch. 645 · 62 Stat. 700
  • 1951Amended · Act of July 16, 1951, ch. 226 · 65 Stat. 121
  • 1994Amended · Pub. L. 103-322 · 108 Stat. 2147

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 645 on 1948-06-25.

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