                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                             PART I--CRIMES
 
                       CHAPTER 83--POSTAL SERVICE
 
Sec. 1731. Vehicles falsely labeled as carriers

    It shall be unlawful to paint, print, or in any manner to place upon 
or attach to any steamboat or other vessel, or any car, stagecoach, 
vehicle, or other conveyance, not actually used in carrying the mail, 
the words ``United States Mail'', or any words, letters, or characters 
of like import; or to give notice, by publishing in any newspaper or 
otherwise, that any steamboat or other vessel, or any car, stagecoach, 
vehicle, or other conveyance, is used in carrying the mail, when the 
same is not actually so used.
    Whoever violates, and every owner, receiver, lessee, or managing 
operator who suffers, or permits the violation of, any provision of this 
section, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six 
months, or both.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 785; Pub. L. 103-322, title XXXIII, 
Sec. 330016(1)(G), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 311 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 
321, Sec. 188, 35 Stat. 1124).
    Reference to persons causing or procuring was omitted as unnecessary 
in view of definition of ``principal'' in section 2 of this title.
    The punishment provision was rewritten to conform more closely with 
comparable offenses in other sections. (See sections 1729 and 1730 of 
this title.)
    Minor verbal changes were made.


                               Amendments

    1994--Pub. L. 103-322 substituted ``fined under this title'' for 
``fined not more than $500'' in second par.
