Volume 68
Public Law 83–405
To amend the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the transportation and distribution of mails on motor-vehicle routes”, approved July 11, 1940 (54 Stat. 756).
Approved June 18, 1954
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the transportation and distribution of mails on motor-vehicle routes”, approved July 11, 1940 (54 Stat. 756).
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 1 of the
Postal service.
Motor-vehicles routes.
Act entitled “An Act to provide for the transportation and distribution of mails on motor-vehicle routes”, approved July 11, 1940 (54 Stat. 756), is hereby amended by striking out that part which precedes the
first proviso and by inserting, in lieu thereof, the following: “The Postmaster General is authorized to use Government-owned motor vehicles or contract for carrying the mails and postal transportation clerks on routes between points where, in his judgment, conditions justify the operation of such service in motor vehicles especially designed and equipped for the distribution of mail en route:”.
Approved June 18, 1954.