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18 U.S.C. § 552Officers aiding importation of obscene or treasonous books and articles

submitted 78 years ago by ch. 645 to r/title-18-CRIMES-AND-CRIMINAL-PROCEDURE · 130 words · no verdicts yet

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This section penalizes a United States officer, agent, or employee who knowingly helps someone violate listed laws involving obscene or indecent materials and other specified matter. The penalty is a fine, imprisonment of up to 10 years, or both.

An officer, agent, or employee of the United States who knowingly helps or encourages someone to violate any law against importing, advertising, dealing in, exhibiting, or mailing obscene or indecent publications or representations commits an offense. The same applies to materials that contain matter advocating or urging treason or insurrection against the United States, forcible resistance to a United States law, a threat to kill or physically harm someone in the United States, a means of obtaining an abortion, or another article of indecent or immoral use or tendency. The officer, agent, or employee may be fined under title 18, imprisoned for not more than 10 years, or both.
the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

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.

Source credit: (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 718; Pub. L. 91–662, § 2, Jan. 8, 1971, 84 Stat. 1973; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(K), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit
  • 1948Enacted · Act of June 25, 1948, ch. 645 · 62 Stat. 718
  • 1971Amended · Pub. L. 91-662 · 84 Stat. 1973
  • 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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