Laws: Cases and Codes : U.S. Code : Title 18 : Section 552


   
U.S. Code as of: 01/19/04
Section 552. Officers aiding importation of obscene or treasonous books and articles

      Whoever, being an officer, agent, or employee of the United
    States, knowingly aids or abets any person engaged in any violation
    of any of the provisions of law prohibiting importing, advertising,
    dealing in, exhibiting, or sending or receiving by mail obscene or
    indecent publications or representations, or books, pamphlets,
    papers, writings, advertisements, circulars, prints, pictures, or
    drawings containing any matter advocating or urging treason or
    insurrection against the United States or forcible resistance to
    any law of the United States, or containing any threat to take the
    life of or inflict bodily harm upon any person in the United
    States, or means for procuring abortion, or other articles of
    indecent or immoral use or tendency, shall be fined under this
    title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.



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