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Title 39 — Postal Service

Part IV · Chapter 32 — Penalty and Franked Mail

§ 3205. Accounting for penalty covers

Statutory text

Executive departments and agencies, independent establishments of the Government of the United States, and organizations and persons authorized by law to use penalty mail, shall account for all penalty covers through the Postal Service.

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. § 3205

    (Pub. L. 91–375, Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 753.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 91–375, Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 753.)

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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. 753.)

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