US Code Title 18 Section 1720

CITE

    18 USC Sec. 1720                                            01/05/2009

EXPCITE

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

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    Sec. 1720. Canceled stamps and envelopes

STATUTE

      Whoever uses or attempts to use in payment of postage, any
    canceled postage stamp, whether the same has been used or not, or
    removes, attempts to remove, or assists in removing, the canceling
    or defacing marks from any postage stamp, or the superscription
    from any stamped envelope, or postal card, that has once been used
    in payment of postage, with the intent to use the same for a like
    purpose, or to sell or offer to sell the same, or knowingly
    possesses any such postage stamp, stamped envelope, or postal card,
    with intent to use the same or knowingly sells or offers to sell
    any such postage stamp, stamped envelope, or postal card, or uses
    or attempts to use the same in payment of postage; or
      Whoever unlawfully and willfully removes from any mail matter any
    stamp attached thereto in payment of postage; or
      Whoever knowingly uses in payment of postage, any postage stamp,
    postal card, or stamped envelope, issued in pursuance of law, which
    has already been used for a like purpose -
      Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one
    year, or both; but if he is a person employed in the Postal
    Service, he shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more
    than three years, or both.

SOURCE

    (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 783; 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. 328 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch.
    321, Sec. 205, 35 Stat. 1127).
      Reference to persons causing or procuring was omitted as
    unnecessary in view of definition of "principal" in section 2 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 two places in last par.