62 STAT.] 80TH CONG., 2D SESS.-CH. 645-JUNE 25, 1948 Shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. § 1426. REPRODUCTION OF NATURALIZATION OR CITIZENSHIP PAPERS (a) Whoever falsely makes, forges, alters or counterfeits any oath, notice, affidavit, certificate of arrival, declaration of intention, certifi- cate or documentary evidence of naturalization or citizenship or any order, record, signature, paper or proceeding or any copy thereof, required or authorized by any law relating to naturalization or citizen- ship or registry of aliens; or (b) Whoever utters, sells, disposes of or uses as true or genuine, any false, forged, altered, antedated or counterfeited oath, notice, affidavit, certificate of arrival, declaration of intention to become a citizen, certificate or documentary evidence of naturalization or citizen- ship, or any order, record, signature or other instrument, paper or proceeding required or authorized by any law relating to naturalization or citizenship or registry of aliens, or any copy thereof, knowing the same to be false, forged, altered, antedated or counterfeited; or (c) Whoever, with intent unlawfully to use the same, possesses any false, forged, altered, antedated or counterfeited certificate of arrival, declaration of intention to become a citizen, certificate or documentary evidence of naturalization or citizenship purporting to have been issued under any law of the United States, or copy thereof, knowing the same to be false, forged, altered, antedated or counterfeited; or (d) Whoever, without lawful authority, engraves or possesses, sells or brings into the United States any plate in the likeness or similitude of any plate designed, for the printing of a declaration of intention, or certificate or documentary evidence of naturalization or citizenship; or (e) Whoever, without lawful authority, brings into the United States any document printed therefrom; or (f) Whoever, without lawful authority, possesses any blank certifi- cate of arrival, blank declaration of intention or blank certificate of naturalization or citizenship provided by the Immigration and Natu- ralization Service, with intent unlawfully to use the same; or (g) Whoever, with intent unlawfully to use the same, possesses a distinctive paper adopted by the proper officer or agency of the United States for the printing or engraving of a declaration of intention to become a citizen, or certificate of naturalization or certificate of citizenship; or (h) Whoever, without lawful authority, prints, photographs, makes or executes any print or impression in the likeness of a certificate of arrival, declaration of intention to become a citizen, or certificate of naturalization or citizenship, or any part thereof- Shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. § 1427. SALE OF NATURALIZATION OR CITIZENSHIP PAPERS Whoever unlawfully sells or disposes of a declaration of intention to become a citizen, certificate of naturalization, certificate of citizen- ship or copies or duplicates or other documentary evidence of natural- ization or citizenship, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. § 1428. SURRENDER OF CANCELED NATURALIZATION CERTIFICATE Whoever, having in his possession or control a certificate of natural- ization or citizenship or a copy thereof which has been canceled as provided by law, fails to surrender the same after at least sixty days' notice by the appropriate court or the Commissioner or Deputy Com- missioner of Immigration, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or im- prisoned not more than five years, or both. 767
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