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<p>[QUOTE="wrucmike, post: 381032, member: 5452"]TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 25 > § 475</p><p><br /></p><p>"§ 475. Imitating obligations or securities; advertisements</p><p><br /></p><p>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 <b>or writes, prints, or otherwise impresses upon or attaches to any such instrument, obligation, or security, or any coin of the United States</b>, any business or professional card, notice, <b>or advertisement, or any notice or advertisement whatever, shall be fined under this title.</b> Nothing in this section applies to evidence of postage payment approved by the United States Postal Service."</p><p><br /></p><p>Currency is an obligation of the US Government and is property of the US Government. It's not <i>technically</i> yours. So in the strictest interpetation of the law, stamping my star note with a where's george stamp is against the law. But so is going 60 mph in a 55 - chances are you're not going to get pulled over.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="wrucmike, post: 381032, member: 5452"]TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 25 > § 475 "§ 475. Imitating obligations or securities; advertisements 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 [B]or writes, prints, or otherwise impresses upon or attaches to any such instrument, obligation, or security, or any coin of the United States[/B], any business or professional card, notice, [B]or advertisement, or any notice or advertisement whatever, shall be fined under this title.[/B] Nothing in this section applies to evidence of postage payment approved by the United States Postal Service." Currency is an obligation of the US Government and is property of the US Government. It's not [I]technically[/I] yours. So in the strictest interpetation of the law, stamping my star note with a where's george stamp is against the law. But so is going 60 mph in a 55 - chances are you're not going to get pulled over.[/QUOTE]
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