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title: "26 U.S.C. § 5752"
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# 26 U.S.C. § 5752 - Restrictions relating to marks, labels, notices, and packages
## Text
No person shall, with intent to defraud the United States, destroy, obliterate, or detach any mark, label, or notice prescribed or authorized, by this chapter or regulations thereunder, to appear on, or be affixed to, any package of tobacco products or cigarette papers or tubes, before such package is emptied.
(Aug. 16, 1954, ch. 736, 68A Stat. 716; Pub. L. 85859, title II, § 202, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1424; Pub. L. 94455, title XIX, § 1905(b)(7)(B)(i), Oct. 4, 1976, 90 Stat. 1823.)
## Notes
Editorial Notes
Amendments1976—Pub. L. 94455 struck out reference to stamps in the section catchline and in the text and struck out provisions which had enumerated violations involving the misuse of tax stamps. 1958—Pub. L. 85859 included marks and notices in the catchline, limited the penalties to cases where there is intent to defraud the United States, and prohibited the destruction, obliteration, or detachment of any mark, label, notice or stamp before a package of tobacco products or cigarette papers or tubes is emptied.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date of 1976 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 94455 effective on first day of first month which begins more than 90 days after Oct. 4, 1976, see section 1905(d) of Pub. L. 94455, set out as a note under section 5005 of this title.
Effective Date of 1958 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 85859 effective Sept. 3, 1958, see section 210(a)(1) of Pub. L. 85859, set out as an Effective Date note under section 5001 of this title.