Federal · Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure

18 U.S.C. § 333: Mutilation of national bank obligations

Misdemeanor

What this law says, in plain English

It is illegal to mutilate, deface, or damage national bank obligations with intent to render them unfit for reissue. Violation is punishable by fine and/or up to six months imprisonment.

Read the full statutory text

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.

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