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Title 26 — Internal Revenue Code

Chapter 69 — General Provisions Relating to Stamps

§ 6804. Attachment and cancellation

Statutory text

Except as otherwise expressly provided in this title, the stamps referred to in section 6801 shall be attached, protected, removed, canceled, obliterated, and destroyed, in such manner and by such instruments or other means as the Secretary may prescribe by rules or regulations.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Aug. 16, 1954, ch. 736, 68A Stat. 830 · 68A Stat. 830

    Enacted · 26 U.S.C. § 6804

    Aug. 16, 1954, ch. 736, 68A Stat. 830

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Aug. 16, 1954, ch. 736, 68A Stat. 830

  2. Pub. L. 94–455 title XIX § 1906(b)(13)(A) · 90 Stat. 1520

    Struck · 26 U.S.C. § 6804

    Pub. L. 94–455 struck out “or his delegate” after “Secretary”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 94–455 struck out “or his delegate” after “Secretary”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (A) The Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended by this Act, is amended by striking out “Secretary or his delegate” each place it appears and inserting in lieu thereof “Secretary”.

1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1976—Pub. L. 94–455 struck out “or his delegate” after “Secretary”.

Credits

1954–1976 · 2 acts
  1. 1954Aug. 16, 1954, ch. 736, 68A Stat. 830
  2. 1976Pub. L. 94–455, title XIX, § 1906(b)(13)(A), , 90 Stat. 1834.
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(Aug. 16, 1954, ch. 736, 68A Stat. 830; Pub. L. 94–455, title XIX, § 1906(b)(13)(A), , 90 Stat. 1834.)

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