Files
republic-os/legal/us/code/title-18/chapter-83/section-1691.md
T
Fabio 76b8ec33a7 Legal corpus: the complete U.S. Code (59,740 sections, all 53 titles)
Ingested titles 12–51 and 54 from OLRC USLM XML @119-100 (the whole Code
now, uniform edition; Title 53 is reserved/empty). LegalText 11,221 ->
59,740; repo total 105,704 records. Deterministic (byte-identical rerun,
verified on Title 42's 8,356 sections); make check green. make
legal-us-code default now covers every title.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-06 10:51:44 -04:00

1.8 KiB

type, title, description, jurisdiction, corpus, kind, title_number, title_name, chapter_number, chapter_name, section, citation, status, release_point, release_date, source, source_url, source_identifier, source_file, source_hash, raw_snapshot_hash, text_hash, retrieved_at, confidence, tags
type title description jurisdiction corpus kind title_number title_name chapter_number chapter_name section citation status release_point release_date source source_url source_identifier source_file source_hash raw_snapshot_hash text_hash retrieved_at confidence tags
LegalText 18 U.S.C. § 1691 Laws governing postal savings us united_states_code code_section 18 CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE 83 POSTAL SERVICE 1691 18 U.S.C. § 1691 current 119-100 2026-06-26 official https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc18@119-100.zip /us/usc/t18/s1691 data/legal/raw/us/code/title-18/usc18.xml 41cd2120fbdf63cd24f7a48ad157f605b7d36eb9c76bf6e3285698d26e5b13f9 1a1bbbbdb59e376ada4eb7ad1056fd68d396679ee7ab59f0561af15006122708 2adda88aeb7e098504210435adbf45ce01d9e086207f96cc2d9f8ea0cc4f8de9 2026-07-04 official
legal
us-code

18 U.S.C. § 1691 - Laws governing postal savings

Text

All the safeguards provided by law for the protection of public moneys, and all statutes relating to the embezzlement, conversion, improper handling, retention, use, or disposal of postal and money-order funds, false returns of postal and money-order business, forgery, counterfeiting, alteration, improper use or handling of postal and money-order blanks, forms, vouchers, accounts, and records, and the dies, plates, and engravings therefor, with the punishments provided for such offenses are extended and made applicable to postal savings depository business and funds and related matters.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 776.)

Notes

Historical and Revision NotesBased on section 765 of title 39, U.S.C., 1940 ed., The Postal Service (June 25, 1910, ch. 386, § 15, 36 Stat. 818). Changes of phraseology were made without change of substance.