18 U.S.C. § 2197

Misuse of Federal certificate, license or document

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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.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 6 cases, 1961–2015 · leading case: United States v. Saul J. Morris

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United States v. Saul J. Morris (2000) ca6 · cites it 6× “Morris appeals from his judgment of conviction for misusing a United States Coast Guard certificate, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2197 . The issue on appeal is whether Defendant’s misuse of a copy of an illegally obtained United States Coast Guard certificate of registry…”

United States v. Corey Wooley (2014) ca5 “The probation order required Wooley to submit to random urinalysis drug testing by a probation officer, pay for his electronic monitoring system, and attend a “life skills” program.”

Omar v. Sea-Land Service, Inc. (1987) ca9 “Although this statute was the “guide” appropriately used by the Coast Guard to judge Omar guilty of misconduct, that proceeding was administrative, and Omar certainly cannot be held to have been found guilty of a felony.”

United States v. Naughten (1961) cand “§ 2197 pro *158 hibits the possession of certain “certificates” by one not lawfully entitled to such possession, or the possession of an altered, forged or counterfeit “certificate”, or the possession of, with intent unlawfully to use, “any blank form of such certificate.”

United States v. Morris (2000) ca6 · cites it 5× “Morris appeals from his judgment of conviction for misusing a United States Coast Guard certificate, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2197 . The issue on appeal is whether Defendant’s misuse of a copy of an illegally obtained United States Coast Guard certificate of registry…”

United States v. Anselm (2015) ca2 “§ 1001 ; (ii) four counts of possession and use of an altered merchant marine license, in viola *66 tion of 18 U.S.C. § 2197 ; and (iii) one count of aggravated identity theft, in violation of 18 U.”

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