18 U.S.C. § 2116 — Railway or steamboat post office

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This section concerns Railway or steamboat post office. It states the rules and limits in the provisions below.

Whoever, by violence, enters a post-office car, or any part of any car, steamboat, or vessel, assigned to the use of the mail service, or willfully or maliciously assaults or interferes with any postal clerk in the discharge of his duties related to such car, steamboat, vessel, or apartment of it, is fined under this title or imprisoned no more than three years, or both.

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Whoever, by violence, enters a post-office car, or any part of any car, steamboat, or vessel, assigned to the use of the mail service, or willfully or maliciously assaults or interferes with any postal clerk in the discharge of his duties in connection with such car, steamboat, vessel, or apartment thereof, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

Source credit: (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 797; Pub. L. 104–294, title VI, § 601(a)(8), Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3498.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1948Enacted · Act of June 25, 1948, ch. 645 · 62 Stat. 797
1996Amended · Pub. L. 104-294 · 110 Stat. 3498

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 645 on 1948-06-25.

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