Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure

18 U.S.C. § 1017

Government seals wrongfully used and instruments wrongfully sealed

Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal ProcedureChapter CHAPTER 47—: FRAUD AND FALSE STATEMENTS
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Whoever fraudulently or wrongfully affixes or impresses the seal of any department or agency of the United States, to or upon any certificate, instrument, commission, document, or paper or with knowledge of its fraudulent character, with wrongful or fraudulent intent, uses, buys, procures, sells, or transfers to another any such certificate, instrument, commission, document, or paper, to which or upon which said seal has been so fraudulently affixed or impressed, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.