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Title 39 — Postal Service

Part IV · Chapter 32 — Penalty and Franked Mail

§ 3203. Endorsements on penalty covers

Statutory text

(a)

Except as otherwise provided in this section, penalty covers shall bear, over the words “Official Business” an endorsement showing the name of the department, bureau, or office from which, or officer from whom, it is transmitted. The penalty for the unlawful use of all penalty covers shall be printed thereon.

(b)

The Postal Service shall prescribe the endorsement to be placed on covers mailed under clauses (1)(E), (2), and (3) of section 3202(a) of this title.

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. Postal Reorganization Act

    Pub. L. 91–375 · 84 Stat. 719

    Enacted · 39 U.S.C. § 3203

    (Pub. L. 91–375, Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 752.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 91–375, Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 752.)

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

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective , pursuant to Resolution No. 71–9 of the Board of Governors. See section 15(a) of Pub. L. 91–375, set out as a note preceding section 101 of this title.

Credits

(Pub. L. 91–375, , 84 Stat. 752.)

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