Laws: Cases and Codes : U.S. Code : Title 18 : Section 501


   
U.S. Code as of: 01/19/04
Section 501. Postage stamps, postage meter stamps, and postal cards

      Whoever forges or counterfeits any postage stamp, postage meter
    stamp, or any stamp printed upon any stamped envelope, or postal
    card, or any die, plate, or engraving thereof; or
      Whoever makes or prints, or knowingly uses or sells, or possesses
    with intent to use or sell, any such forged or counterfeited
    postage stamp, postage meter stamp, stamped envelope, postal card,
    die, plate, or engraving; or
      Whoever makes, or knowingly uses or sells, or possesses with
    intent to use or sell, any paper bearing the watermark of any
    stamped envelope, or postal card, or any fraudulent imitation
    thereof; or
      Whoever makes or prints, or authorizes to be made or printed, any
    postage stamp, postage meter stamp, stamped envelope, or postal
    card, of the kind authorized and provided by the Post Office
    Department or by the Postal Service, without the special authority
    and direction of the Department or Postal Service; or
      Whoever after such postage stamp, postage meter stamp, stamped
    envelope, or postal card has been printed, with intent to defraud,
    delivers the same to any person not authorized by an instrument in
    writing, duly executed under the hand of the Postmaster General and
    the seal of the Post Office Department or the Postal Service, to
    receive it - 
      Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five
    years, or both.



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