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18 U.S.C. § 1465Production and transportation of obscene matters for sale or distribution

submitted 71 years ago by ch. 190 to r/title-18-CRIMES-AND-CRIMINAL-PROCEDURE · 173 words · no verdicts yet

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This section addresses Production and transportation of obscene matters for sale or distribution. It states the duties, permissions, limits, definitions, and procedures set out in the section.

Whoever knowingly produces with the intent to transport, distribute, or send in interstate or foreign commerce, or whoever knowingly transports or travels in, or uses a facility or means of, interstate or foreign commerce or an interactive computer service (as defined in section 230(e)(2) of the Communications Act of 1934) in or affecting such commerce, to sale or distribution of any obscene, lewd, lascivious, or filthy book, pamphlet, picture, film, paper, letter, writing, print, silhouette, drawing, figure, image, cast, phonograph recording, electrical transcription or other article capable of producing sound or any other matter of indecent or immoral character, must be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. The transportation as aforesaid of two or more copies of any publication or two or more of any article of the character described above, or a combined total of five such publications and articles, must create a presumption that such publications or articles are intended for sale or distribution, but such presumption must be rebuttable.
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Whoever knowingly produces with the intent to transport, distribute, or transmit in interstate or foreign commerce, or whoever knowingly transports or travels in, or uses a facility or means of, interstate or foreign commerce or an interactive computer service (as defined in section 230(e)(2) 1 of the Communications Act of 1934) in or affecting such commerce, for the purpose of sale or distribution of any obscene, lewd, lascivious, or filthy book, pamphlet, picture, film, paper, letter, writing, print, silhouette, drawing, figure, image, cast, phonograph recording, electrical transcription or other article capable of producing sound or any other matter of indecent or immoral character, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

The transportation as aforesaid of two or more copies of any publication or two or more of any article of the character described above, or a combined total of five such publications and articles, shall create a presumption that such publications or articles are intended for sale or distribution, but such presumption shall be rebuttable.

Source credit: (Added June 28, 1955, ch. 190, § 3, 69 Stat. 183; amended Pub. L. 100–690, title VII, §§ 7521(c), 7522(b), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4489, 4494; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(K), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147; Pub. L. 104–104, title V, § 507(b), Feb. 8, 1996, 110 Stat. 137; Pub. L. 109–248, title V, § 506(a), July 27, 2006, 120 Stat. 630.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit
  • 1955Enacted · Act of June 28, 1955, ch. 190 · 69 Stat. 183
  • 1988Amended · Pub. L. 100-690 · 102 Stat. 4489, 4494
  • 1994Amended · Pub. L. 103-322 · 108 Stat. 2147
  • 1996Amended · Pub. L. 104-104 · 110 Stat. 137
  • 2006Amended · Pub. L. 109-248 · 120 Stat. 630

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 190 on 1955-06-28.

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