18 U.S.C. § 474 : US Code - Section 474: Plates, stones, or analog, digital, or electronic images for counterfeiting obligations or securities

Search 18 U.S.C. § 474 : US Code - Section 474: Plates, stones, or analog, digital, or electronic images for counterfeiting obligations or securities

(a) Whoever, having control, custody, or possession of any plate,
stone, or other thing, or any part thereof, from which has been
printed, or which may be prepared by direction of the Secretary of
the Treasury for the purpose of printing, any obligation or other
security of the United States, uses such plate, stone, or other
thing, or any part thereof, or knowingly suffers the same to be
used for the purpose of printing any such or similar obligation or
other security, or any part thereof, except as may be printed for
the use of the United States by order of the proper officer
thereof; or
Whoever makes or executes any plate, stone, or other thing in the
likeness of any plate designated for the printing of such
obligation or other security; or
Whoever, with intent to defraud, makes, executes, acquires,
scans, captures, records, receives, transmits, reproduces, sells,
or has in such person's control, custody, or possession, an analog,
digital, or electronic image of any obligation or other security of
the United States; or
Whoever sells any such plate, stone, or other thing, or brings
into the United States any such plate, stone, or other thing,
except under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury or
other proper officer, or with any other intent, in either case,
than that such plate, stone, or other thing be used for the
printing of the obligations or other securities of the United
States; or
Whoever has in his control, custody, or possession any plate,
stone, or other thing in any manner made after or in the similitude
of any plate, stone, or other thing, from which any such obligation
or other security has been printed, with intent to use such plate,
stone, or other thing, or to suffer the same to be used in forging
or counterfeiting any such obligation or other security, or any
part thereof; or
Whoever has in his possession or custody, except under authority
from the Secretary of the Treasury or other proper officer, any
obligation or other security made or executed, in whole or in part,
after the similitude of any obligation or other security issued
under the authority of the United States, with intent to sell or
otherwise use the same; or
Whoever prints, photographs, or in any other manner makes or
executes any engraving, photograph, print, or impression in the
likeness of any such obligation or other security, or any part
thereof, or sells any such engraving, photograph, print, or
impression, except to the United States, or brings into the United
States, any such engraving, photograph, print, or impression,
except by direction of some proper officer of the United States -
Is guilty of a class B felony.
(b) For purposes of this section, the term "analog, digital, or
electronic image" includes any analog, digital, or electronic
method used for the making, execution, acquisition, scanning,
capturing, recording, retrieval, transmission, or reproduction of
any obligation or security, unless such use is authorized by the
Secretary of the Treasury. The Secretary shall establish a system
(pursuant to section 504) to ensure that the legitimate use of such
electronic methods and retention of such reproductions by
businesses, hobbyists, press and others shall not be unduly
restricted.