                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                             PART I--CRIMES
 
                    CHAPTER 103--ROBBERY AND BURGLARY
 
Sec. 2115. Post office

    Whoever forcibly breaks into or attempts to break into any post 
office, or any building used in whole or in part as a post office, with 
intent to commit in such post office, or building or part thereof, so 
used, any larceny or other depredation, shall be fined under this title 
or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 797; Pub. L. 104-294, title VI, 
Sec. 601(a)(8), Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3498.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 315 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 
321, Sec. 192, 335 Stat. 1125).
    Mandatory punishment provisions were rephrased in the alternative.
    Minor change in phraseology was made.


                               Amendments

    1996--Pub. L. 104-294 substituted ``fined under this title'' for 
``fined not more than $1,000''.
