39 U.S.C. § 3002 — Nonmailable motor vehicle master keys
submitted 56 years ago by Pub. L. 91-375 to r/title-39-POSTAL-SERVICE · 136 words · no verdicts yet
Motor-vehicle master keys, related making tools, and advertisements for them generally cannot be mailed. The Postal Service may create exemptions, and the section defines the term.
(a) Mailability. Except as subsection (b) allows, a motor-vehicle master key, a pattern, impression, or mold from which one can be made, and an advertisement for any of them is nonmailable and may not be carried or delivered by mail. (b) Postal Service exemptions. The Postal Service may make exemptions from subsection (a) that it considers necessary. (c) Definition. A “motor vehicle master key” is a key, other than the manufacturer’s key, a replacement-lock key, or an exact duplicate of either, designed to operate two or more ignition, door, or trunk locks of different combinations.
Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, any motor vehicle master key, any pattern, impression, or mold from which a motor vehicle master key may be made, or any advertisement for the sale of any such key, pattern, impression, or mold, is nonmailable matter and shall not be carried or delivered by mail.
The Postal Service is authorized to make such exemptions from the provisions of subsection (a) of this section as it deems necessary.
For the purposes of this section, “motor vehicle master key” means any key (other than the key furnished by the manufacturer with the motor vehicle, or the key furnished with a replacement lock, or any exact duplicate of such keys) designed to operate 2 or more motor vehicle ignition, door, or trunk locks of different combinations.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 91–375, Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 746.)
- 1970Enacted · Pub. L. 91-375 · 84 Stat. 746
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