CITE

    18 USC Sec. 1731                                            01/05/2009

EXPCITE

    TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
    PART I - CRIMES
    CHAPTER 83 - POSTAL SERVICE

HEAD

    Sec. 1731. Vehicles falsely labeled as carriers

STATUTE

      It shall be unlawful to paint, print, or in any manner to place
    upon or attach to any steamboat or other vessel, or any car,
    stagecoach, vehicle, or other conveyance, not actually used in
    carrying the mail, the words "United States Mail", or any words,
    letters, or characters of like import; or to give notice, by
    publishing in any newspaper or otherwise, that any steamboat or
    other vessel, or any car, stagecoach, vehicle, or other conveyance,
    is used in carrying the mail, when the same is not actually so
    used.
      Whoever violates, and every owner, receiver, lessee, or managing
    operator who suffers, or permits the violation of, any provision of
    this section, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not
    more than six months, or both.

SOURCE

    (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 785; Pub. L. 103-322, title
    XXXIII, Sec. 330016(1)(G), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES

      Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 311 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch.
    321, Sec. 188, 35 Stat. 1124).
      Reference to persons causing or procuring was omitted as
    unnecessary in view of definition of "principal" in section 2 of
    this title.
      The punishment provision was rewritten to conform more closely
    with comparable offenses in other sections. (See sections 1729 and
    1730 of this title.)
      Minor verbal changes were made.
                                AMENDMENTS
      1994 - Pub. L. 103-322 substituted "fined under this title" for
    "fined not more than $500" in second par.