{"identifier":"/us/usc/t39/s3003","title_num":"39","num":"§ 3003.","heading":"Mail bearing a fictitious name or address","status":null,"guid":"id95480ab3-850f-11e8-92d7-ea368389de6a","source_credit":"(Pub. L. 91–375, Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 746.)","seq_in_title":88,"parent_identifier":"/us/usc/t39/ptIV/ch30","ancestors":[{"identifier":"/us/usc/t39","level":"title","num":"Title 39—","heading":"POSTAL SERVICE","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t39/ptIV","level":"part","num":"PART IV—","heading":"MAIL MATTER","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t39/ptIV/ch30","level":"chapter","num":"CHAPTER 30—","heading":"NONMAILABLE MATTER","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=\"id95480ab3-850f-11e8-92d7-ea368389de6a\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t39/s3003\"><num value=\"3003\">§ 3003.</num><heading> Mail bearing a fictitious name or address</heading><subsection style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\" id=\"id95480ab4-850f-11e8-92d7-ea368389de6a\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t39/s3003/a\"><num value=\"a\">(a)</num><chapeau> Upon evidence satisfactory to the Postal Service that any person is using a fictitious, false, or assumed name, title, or address in conducting, promoting, or carrying on or assisting therein, by means of the postal services of the United States, an activity in violation of sections 1302, 1341, and 1342 of title 18, it may—</chapeau><paragraph style=\"-uslm-lc:I12\" class=\"indent1\" id=\"id95480ab5-850f-11e8-92d7-ea368389de6a\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t39/s3003/a/1\"><num value=\"1\">(1)</num><content> withhold mail so addressed from delivery; and</content>\n</paragraph>\n<paragraph style=\"-uslm-lc:I12\" class=\"indent1\" id=\"id95480ab6-850f-11e8-92d7-ea368389de6a\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t39/s3003/a/2\"><num value=\"2\">(2)</num><content> require the party claiming the mail to furnish proof to it of the claimant’s identity and right to receive the mail.</content>\n</paragraph>\n</subsection>\n<subsection style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\" id=\"id95480ab7-850f-11e8-92d7-ea368389de6a\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t39/s3003/b\"><num value=\"b\">(b)</num><chapeau> The Postal Service may issue an order directing that mail, covered by subsection (a) of this section, be forwarded to a dead letter office as fictitious matter, or be returned to the sender when—</chapeau><paragraph style=\"-uslm-lc:I12\" class=\"indent1\" id=\"id95480ab8-850f-11e8-92d7-ea368389de6a\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t39/s3003/b/1\"><num value=\"1\">(1)</num><content> the party claiming the mail fails to furnish proof of his identity and right to receive the mail; or</content>\n</paragraph>\n<paragraph style=\"-uslm-lc:I12\" class=\"indent1\" id=\"id95480ab9-850f-11e8-92d7-ea368389de6a\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t39/s3003/b/2\"><num value=\"2\">(2)</num><content> the Postal Service determines that the mail is addressed to a fictitious, false, or assumed name, title, or address.</content>\n</paragraph>\n</subsection>\n<sourceCredit id=\"id95480aba-850f-11e8-92d7-ea368389de6a\">(<ref href=\"/us/pl/91/375\">Pub. L. 91–375</ref>, <date date=\"1970-08-12\">Aug. 12, 1970</date>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/84/746\">84 Stat. 746</ref>.)</sourceCredit>\n<notes type=\"uscNote\" id=\"id95480abb-850f-11e8-92d7-ea368389de6a\">\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" topic=\"effectiveDate\" id=\"id95480abc-850f-11e8-92d7-ea368389de6a\"><heading class=\"centered smallCaps\">Effective Date</heading><p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">Section effective <date date=\"1971-07-01\">July 1, 1971</date>, pursuant to Resolution No. 71–9 of the Board of Governors. See <ref href=\"/us/pl/91/375/s15/a\">section 15(a) of Pub. L. 91–375</ref>, set out as a note preceding <ref href=\"/us/usc/t39/s101\">section 101 of this title</ref>.</p>\n</note>\n</notes>\n</section>","provision":null,"duplicates":[],"release":{"label":"115-196","currency_date":"2018-07-07","congress":115,"law_num":196,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":142,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["05","39","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"served_from":{"label":"115-196","currency_date":"2018-07-07","congress":115,"law_num":196,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":142,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["05","39","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"content_first_seen":{"label":"115-196","currency_date":"2018-07-07","congress":115,"law_num":196,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":142,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["05","39","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"is_exact":true,"note":null}