---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 499"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "499"
heading: "Military, naval, or official passes"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/499"
units:
  - "Part I — Crimes"
  - "Chapter 25 — Counterfeiting and Forgery"
---

# §499. Military, naval, or official passes


[Whoever](/usc/18/921.md?p=a-1) falsely makes, forges, counterfeits, alters, or tampers with any naval, military, or official pass or permit, issued by or under the authority of the [United States](/usc/18/229F.md?p=9), or with intent to defraud uses or possesses any such pass or permit, or personates or falsely represents himself to be or not to be a [person](/usc/18/229F.md?p=5) to whom such pass or permit has been duly issued, or willfully allows any other [person](/usc/18/229F.md?p=5) to have or use any such pass or permit, issued for his use alone, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.


## Source credit

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 712; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(I), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 132 (June 15, 1917, ch. 30, title X, § 3, 40 Stat. 228).

Changes were made in phraseology.

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1994—Pub. L. 103–322 substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $2,000”.