18 U.S.C. § 2197 : US Code - Section 2197: Misuse of Federal certificate, license or document

Search 18 U.S.C. § 2197 : US Code - Section 2197: Misuse of Federal certificate, license or document

Whoever, not being lawfully entitled thereto, uses, exhibits, or
attempts to use or exhibit, or, with intent unlawfully to use the
same, receives or possesses any certificate, license, or document
issued to vessels, or officers or seamen by any officer or employee
of the United States authorized by law to issue the same; or
Whoever, without authority, alters or attempts to alter any such
certificate, license, or document by addition, interpolation,
deletion, or erasure; or
Whoever forges, counterfeits, or steals, or attempts to forge,
counterfeit, or steal, any such certificate, license, or document;
or unlawfully possesses or knowingly uses any such altered,
changed, forged, counterfeit, or stolen certificate, license, or
document; or
Whoever, without authority, prints or manufactures any blank form
of such certificate, license, or document, or
Whoever possesses without lawful excuse, and with intent
unlawfully to use the same, any blank form of such certificate,
license, or document; or
Whoever, in any manner, transfers or negotiates such transfer of,
any blank form of such certificate, license, or document, or any
such altered, forged, counterfeit, or stolen certificate, license,
or document, or any such certificate, license, or document to which
the party transferring or receiving the same is not lawfully
entitled -
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five
years, or both.