12 USC § 421 - Examination of plates and dies

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identifier: "/us/usc/t12/s421"
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legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "12 USC § 421 - Examination of plates and dies"
title_number: 12
title_name: "BANKS AND BANKING"
section_number: "421"
section_name: "Examination of plates and dies"
chapter_number: 3
chapter_name: "FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM"
subchapter_number: "XII"
subchapter_name: "FEDERAL RESERVE NOTES"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 16 (par.), 38 Stat. 267; Pub. L. 103–325, title VI, § 602(g)(6), Sept. 23, 1994, 108 Stat. 2293.)"
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# § 421. Examination of plates and dies

The Secretary of the Treasury may examine the plates, dies, bed pieces, and other material used in the printing of Federal Reserve notes and issue regulations relating to such examinations.

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**Source Credit**: (Dec. 23, 1913, ch. 6, § 16 (par.), 38 Stat. 267; Pub. L. 103–325, title VI, § 602(g)(6), Sept. 23, 1994, 108 Stat. 2293.)

## Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section is comprised of the tenth (formerly the eleventh) par. of section 16 of act . For classification to this title of other pars. of section 16, see Codification note set out under .

### Amendments

1994—, which directed general amendment of “[t]he 11th undesignated paragraph of section 16 of the Federal Reserve Act ()”, was executed to this section to reflect the probable intent of Congress. Prior to amendment, text read as follows: “The examination of plates, dies, bed pieces, and so forth, and regulations relating to such examination of plates, dies, and so forth, of national-bank notes provided for in , is extended to include notes herein provided for.”