Volume 69 · 80
Public Law 84–53
To amend title 18, United States Code, section 871, to provide penalties for threats against the President-elect and the Vice President.
Approved June 1, 1955
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend title 18, United States Code, section 871, to provide penalties for threats against the President-elect and the Vice President.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That title 18, United States Code, section 871 is amended to read as follows:
Ҥ 871.
Threats against President, President-elect, and Vice President “Whoever knowingly and willfully deposits for conveyance in the mail or for delivery from any post office or by any letter carrier any letter, paper, writing, print, missive, or document containing any threat to take the life of or to inflict bodily harm upon the President of the United States, the President-elect, or the Vice President of the United States, or knowingly and willfully otherwise makes any such threat against the President, President-elect, or Vice President, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.”
Sec. 2.
The analysis of chapter 41 of title 18, United States Code, immediately preceding section 871 of such title is amended by deleting
and inserting in lieu thereof the following:
Approved June 1, 1955.