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18 U.S.C. § 475 — Imitating obligations or securities; advertisements

submitted 78 years ago by ch. 645 to r/title-18-CRIMES-AND-CRIMINAL-PROCEDURE · 108 words · no verdicts yet

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It is illegal to make or use a business card, notice, advertisement, or similar item that looks like real U.S. money or securities. This includes printing such designs on coins too. Anyone who does this can be fined. Postage stamps approved by the U.S. Postal Service are not covered by this law.

This section makes it illegal to design, engrave, print, make, or use — or to put out, issue, spread, or circulate — any business card, notice, placard, circular, handbill, or advertisement that looks like a real U.S. obligation or security issued under an Act of Congress. It is also illegal to write, print, or attach any business card, notice, or advertisement onto such an instrument, obligation, security, or coin. Anyone who breaks this rule can be fined under this title (title 18). This section does not apply to proof of postage payment that the United States Postal Service has approved.
the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

Whoever designs, engraves, prints, makes, or executes, or utters, issues, distributes, circulates, or uses any business or professional card, notice, placard, circular, handbill, or advertisement in the likeness or similitude of any obligation or security of the United States issued under or authorized by any Act of Congress or writes, prints, or otherwise impresses upon or attaches to any such instrument, obligation, or security, or any coin of the United States, any business or professional card, notice, or advertisement, or any notice or advertisement whatever, shall be fined under this title. Nothing in this section applies to evidence of postage payment approved by the United States Postal Service.

Source credit: (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 706; July 16, 1951, ch. 226, § 2, 65 Stat. 122; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(G), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147; Pub. L. 109–162, title XI, § 1192, Jan. 5, 2006, 119 Stat. 3129.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit
  • 1948Enacted · Act of June 25, 1948, ch. 645 · 62 Stat. 706
  • 1951Amended · Act of July 16, 1951, ch. 226 · 65 Stat. 122
  • 1994Amended · Pub. L. 103-322 · 108 Stat. 2147
  • 2006Amended · Pub. L. 109-162 · 119 Stat. 3129

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

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