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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Drusus, post: 158600, member: 6370&quot;]<i>Whoever mutilates, cuts, defaces, disfigures, or perforates, or unites</i></p><p><i>or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill, draft,</i></p><p><i>note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national banking</i></p><p><i>association...</i></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><i>...with intent to render such bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence</i></p><p><i>of debt unfit to be reissued...</i></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The way I read it is if you mutilate a bill so that it is unfit to be used as currency and this was your intent when mutilating it...its a crime. I found a rather informative answer to this and it seems that its a bit up in the air:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Title 18 United States Code, Section 333</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Mutilation of national bank obligations </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Whoever mutilates, cuts, defaces, disfigures, or perforates, or unites</p><p>or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill, draft,</p><p>note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national banking</p><p>association, or Federal Reserve bank, or the Federal Reserve System,</p><p>with intent to render such bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence</p><p>of debt unfit to be reissued, shall be fined under this title or</p><p>imprisoned not more than six months, or both.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>---------------------------------- </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This statute can also be found online on Cornell Law School&#039;s Legal</p><p>Information Institute website:</p><p><a href="http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/333.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/333.html" rel="nofollow"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/333.html</span></u></a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>this statute appears to be rarely cited, and does not appear to</p><p>have any associated regulatory provisions in the Code of Federal</p><p>Regulations (CFR).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The United States Code, Annotated, has only one case law annotation</p><p>for this statute, Keese v. Zerbst, 88 F.2d 795 (C.C.A. Kan., 1937),</p><p>certiorari denied 57 S.Ct. 933 (1937). That case involved a person who</p><p>was convicted of a forgery offense, and attempted to argue that he</p><p>should only have been convicted of defacing currency. &quot;Certiorari</p><p>denied&quot; indicates that the United States Supreme Court refused to hear</p><p>the case, and allowed the Kansas court decision to stand.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Note that this is also an intent-based crime. An element of the</p><p>offense is &quot;...<i>intent to render such [currency] unfit to be reissued</i>.&quot;</p><p><b>As there does not appear to be any case law interpreting this statute,</b></p><p><b>and there is nothing on point in the CFR, it is difficult to say how</b></p><p><b>this would be applied by the courts if the defendant intended to</b></p><p><b>destroy the currency but had no specific regard for his acts&#039; effect</b></p><p><b>on the ability of the Federal Reserve System&#039;s ability to reissue the</b></p><p><b>note.</b> Given that intent requirement, it seems unlikely that a</p><p>prosecution would be possible if the primary purpose of the</p><p>destruction of the currency was not specificly to keep the bill from being reissued.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.moneyfactory.gov/document.cfm/18/104" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.moneyfactory.gov/document.cfm/18/104" rel="nofollow">http://www.moneyfactory.gov/document.cfm/18/104</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Defacement of currency in such a way that it is made unfit for circulation comes under the jurisdiction of the United States Secret Service.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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