2017 US Code
Title 39 - Postal Service
Part I - General
Chapter 6 - Private Carriage of Letters
Sec. 603 - Searches authorized
| 39 U.S.C. § 603 (2017) |
| §603. Searches authorized |
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The Postal Service may authorize any officer or employee of the Postal Service to make searches for mail matter transported in violation of law. When the authorized officer has reason to believe that mailable matter transported contrary to law may be found therein, he may open and search any— (1) vehicle passing, or having lately passed, from a place at which there is a post office of the United States; (2) article being, or having lately been, in the vehicle; or (3) store or office, other than a dwelling house, used or occupied by a common carrier or transportation company, in which an article may be contained. |
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(Pub. L. 91–375, Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 727.) |
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EFFECTIVE DATE
Section effective July 1, 1971, pursuant to Resolution No. 71–9 of the Board of Governors. See section 15(a) of Pub. L. 91–375, set out as a note preceding section 101 of this title. |
| United States Code, 2012 Edition, Supplement 5, Title 39 - POSTAL SERVICE |
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| United States Code |
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| Title 39 - POSTAL SERVICE PART I - GENERAL CHAPTER 6 - PRIVATE CARRIAGE OF LETTERS Sec. 603 - Searches authorized |
| section 603 |
| 2017 |
| January 12, 2018 |
| Yes |
| standard |
| 84 Stat. 727 |
| Public Law 91-375 |
