{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/s1710","title_num":"18","num":"§ 1710.","heading":"Theft of newspapers","status":null,"guid":"idbd1b6e56-4aa6-11eb-bce4-d6beeb6aa2d0","source_credit":"(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 780; Pub. L. 91–375, § 6(j)(20), Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 778; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(B), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2146.)","seq_in_title":626,"parent_identifier":"/us/usc/t18/ptI/ch83","ancestors":[{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18","level":"title","num":"Title 18—","heading":"CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/ptI","level":"part","num":"PART I—","heading":"CRIMES","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/ptI/ch83","level":"chapter","num":"CHAPTER 83—","heading":"POSTAL SERVICE","status":null,"is_section":false}],"xml":"<section xmlns=\"http://xml.house.gov/schemas/uslm/1.0\" xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" xmlns:dcterms=\"http://purl.org/dc/terms/\" style=\"-uslm-lc:I80\" id=\"id74c59baa-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t18/s1710\"><num value=\"1710\">§ 1710.</num><heading> Theft of newspapers</heading><content>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\">Whoever, being a Postal Service officer or employee, takes or steals any newspaper or package of newspapers from any post office or from any person having custody thereof, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.</p>\n</content><sourceCredit id=\"id74c59bab-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\">(<ref href=\"/us/act/1948-06-25/ch645\">June 25, 1948, ch. 645</ref>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/62/780\">62 Stat. 780</ref>; <ref href=\"/us/pl/91/375/s6/j/20\">Pub. L. 91–375, § 6(j)(20)</ref>, <date date=\"1970-08-12\">Aug. 12, 1970</date>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/84/778\">84 Stat. 778</ref>; <ref href=\"/us/pl/103/322/tXXXIII/s330016/1/B\">Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(B)</ref>, <date date=\"1994-09-13\">Sept. 13, 1994</date>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/108/2146\">108 Stat. 2146</ref>.)</sourceCredit>\n<notes type=\"uscNote\" id=\"id74c59bac-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\">\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" topic=\"historicalAndRevision\" id=\"id74c59bad-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\"><heading class=\"centered smallCaps\">Historical and Revision Notes</heading><p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 319 (<ref href=\"/us/act/1909-03-04/ch321/s196\">Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, § 196</ref>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/35/1126\">35 Stat. 1126</ref>).</p>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">Theft provisions alone are retained in this section. Those relating to other offenses were incorporated in <ref href=\"/us/usc/t18/s1703\">section 1703 of this title</ref>.</p>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">Words “mail or” following “steals any” were omitted as covered by <ref href=\"/us/usc/t18/s1709\">section 1709 of this title</ref>.</p>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">Changes were made in phraseology.</p>\n</note>\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" role=\"crossHeading\" topic=\"editorialNotes\" id=\"id74c59bae-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\"><heading class=\"centered\"><b>Editorial Notes</b></heading></note>\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" topic=\"amendments\" id=\"id74c59baf-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\"><heading class=\"centered smallCaps\">Amendments</heading><p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">1994—<ref href=\"/us/pl/103/322\">Pub. L. 103–322</ref> substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $100”.</p>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">1970—<ref href=\"/us/pl/91/375\">Pub. L. 91–375</ref> substituted “Postal Service officer or employee” for “postmaster or Postal Service employee”.</p>\n</note>\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" role=\"crossHeading\" topic=\"statutoryNotes\" id=\"id74c59bb0-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\"><heading class=\"centered\"><b>Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries</b></heading></note>\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" topic=\"effectiveDateOfAmendment\" id=\"id74c59bb1-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\"><heading class=\"centered smallCaps\">Effective Date of 1970 Amendment</heading><p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">Amendment by <ref href=\"/us/pl/91/375\">Pub. L. 91–375</ref> effective within 1 year after <date date=\"1970-08-12\">Aug. 12, 1970</date>, on date established therefor by Board of Governors of United States Postal Service and published by it in Federal Register, see <ref href=\"/us/pl/91/375/s15/a\">section 15(a) of Pub. L. 91–375</ref>, set out as an Effective Date note preceding <ref href=\"/us/usc/t39/s101\">section 101 of Title 39</ref>, Postal Service.</p>\n</note>\n</notes>\n</section>","provision":null,"duplicates":[],"release":{"label":"116-252","currency_date":"2020-12-22","congress":116,"law_num":252,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":222,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["18","20","31","34","40","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"served_from":{"label":"116-252","currency_date":"2020-12-22","congress":116,"law_num":252,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":222,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["18","20","31","34","40","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"content_first_seen":{"label":"116-214","currency_date":"2020-12-05","congress":116,"law_num":214,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":218,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["02","09","11a","15","16","18","18a","20","21","22","28a","31","37","38","39","40","41","51","52","54"],"ingested_titles":[]},"is_exact":true,"note":null}