{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/s1728","title_num":"18","num":"§ 1728.","heading":"Weight of mail increased fraudulently","status":null,"guid":"idbd2dbddd-4aa6-11eb-bce4-d6beeb6aa2d0","source_credit":"(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 785; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(N), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2148.)","seq_in_title":649,"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=\"id74ccc7a1-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t18/s1728\"><num value=\"1728\">§ 1728.</num><heading> Weight of mail increased fraudulently</heading><content>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\">Whoever places any matter in the mails during the regular weighing period, for the purpose of increasing the weight of the mail, with intent to cause an increase in the compensation of the railroad mail carrier over whose route such mail may pass, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.</p>\n</content><sourceCredit id=\"id74ccc7a2-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\">(<ref href=\"/us/act/1948-06-25/ch645\">June 25, 1948, ch. 645</ref>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/62/785\">62 Stat. 785</ref>; <ref href=\"/us/pl/103/322/tXXXIII/s330016/1/N\">Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(N)</ref>, <date date=\"1994-09-13\">Sept. 13, 1994</date>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/108/2148\">108 Stat. 2148</ref>.)</sourceCredit>\n<notes type=\"uscNote\" id=\"id74ccc7a3-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\">\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" topic=\"historicalAndRevision\" id=\"id74ccc7a4-3b28-11eb-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., § 358 (<ref href=\"/us/act/1909-03-04/ch321/s228\">Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, § 228</ref>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/35/1134\">35 Stat. 1134</ref>).</p>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">Reference to persons causing or procuring was omitted as unnecessary in view of definition of “principal” in <ref href=\"/us/usc/t18/s2\">section 2 of this title</ref>.</p>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">Minor verbal changes were made.</p>\n</note>\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" role=\"crossHeading\" topic=\"editorialNotes\" id=\"id74ccc7a5-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\"><heading class=\"centered\"><b>Editorial Notes</b></heading></note>\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" topic=\"amendments\" id=\"id74ccc7a6-3b28-11eb-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 $20,000”.</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}