18 U.S.C. § 1264 — Delivery to consignee
submitted 78 years ago by ch. 645 to r/title-18-CRIMES-AND-CRIMINAL-PROCEDURE · 110 words · no verdicts yet
A railroad, express company, or other common carrier worker who knowingly delivers certain beverage alcohol to the wrong or a fictitious person commits an offense. The penalty is a fine, up to one year in prison, or both.
An officer, agent, or employee of a railroad, express company, or other common carrier may not knowingly deliver, without the genuine consignee’s written order for that delivery, any spirituous, vinous, malted, or other fermented liquor fit for beverage use, or a compound containing such liquor, to someone other than the consignee, to a fictitious person, or to a person using a fictitious name, when the liquor was shipped to a place in the United States. The person may be fined under this title, imprisoned for up to one year, or both.
Whoever, being an officer, agent, or employee of any railroad company, express company, or other common carrier, knowingly delivers to any person other than the person to whom it has been consigned, unless upon the written order in each instance of the bona fide consignee, or to any fictitious person, or to any person under a fictitious name, any spirituous, vinous, malted, or other fermented liquor or any compound containing any spirituous, vinous, malted, or other fermented liquor fit for use for beverage purposes, which has been shipped into any place within the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
Source credit: (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 761; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(H), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)
- 1948Enacted · Act of June 25, 1948, ch. 645 · 62 Stat. 761
- 1994Amended · Pub. L. 103-322 · 108 Stat. 2147
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 645 on 1948-06-25.
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