18-U.S.C.-1733

§1733 – Mailing Periodical Publications Without Prepayment of Postage

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Title 18 > Part I > Chapter 83 > Section 1733

Details

• Reference: Section 1733
• Legend: §1733 – Mailing Periodical Publications Without Prepayment of Postage
• USCode Year: 2013

Provision Content

Whoever, except as permitted by law, knowingly mails any periodical publication without the prepayment of postage, or, being an officer or employee of the Postal Service, knowingly permits any periodical publication to be mailed without prepayment of postage, shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

(Added Pub. L. 86–682, §7, Sept. 2, 1960, 74 Stat. 705; amended Pub. L. 91–375, §6(j)(36)(A), Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 780; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, §330016(1)(H), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

Amendments

1994—Pub. L. 103–322 substituted fined under this title for fined not more than $1,000.

1970—Pub. L. 91–375 substituted Mailing periodical publications without prepayment of postage for Affidavits relating to second class mail as section catchline, struck out subsec. (a) penalty provision for fine of not more than $1,000 for each refusal to make affidavits relating to second class mail when tendering for mailing such mail without any affidavits, and reenacted subsec. (b) as the section without any subsection designation, inserting , except as permitted by law, and substituting periodical publication for second class mail in two places, prepayment of postage for payment of postage where first appearing, and officer or employee of the Postal Service for postmaster or postal official.

Effective Date of 1970 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 91–375 effective within 1 year after Aug. 12, 1970, on date established therefor by Board of Governors of United States Postal Service and published by it in Federal Register, see section 15(a) of Pub. L. 91–375, set out as an Effective Date note preceding section 101 of Title 39, Postal Service.

Effective Date

Section effective Sept. 1, 1960, see section 11 of Pub. L. 86–682.

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