18 U.S.C. § 334 : US Code - Section 334: Issuance of Federal Reserve or national bank notes

Search 18 U.S.C. § 334 : US Code - Section 334: Issuance of Federal Reserve or national bank notes

Whoever, being a Federal Reserve Agent, or an agent or employee
of such Federal Reserve Agent, or of the Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System, issues or puts in circulation any Federal
Reserve notes, without complying with or in violation of the
provisions of law regulating the issuance and circulation of such
Federal Reserve notes; or
Whoever, being an officer acting under the provisions of chapter
2 of Title 12, countersigns or delivers to any national banking
association, or to any other company or person, any circulating
notes contemplated by that chapter except in strict accordance with
its provisions -
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five
years, or both.