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 72 S T A T. ]

PUBLIC LAW 85-859-8EPT. 2, 1958

"SEC. 5604. PENALTIES RELATING TO STAMPS, MARKS, BRANDS, AND CONTAINERS. " (a) GENERAL.—Any person who shall— "(1) transport, possess, buy, sell, or transfer any distilled spirits, required to be stamped under the provisions of section 5205 (a)(2), unless the immediate container thereof has affixed thereto a stamp as required by such section; or "(2) with intent to defraud the United States, empty a container stamped under the provisions of section 5205(a)(1) or (2) or section 5235 without destroying the stamp thereon as required by section 5205(a)(3) or regulations prescribed pursuant thereto; or "(3) empty, or cause to be emptied, any distilled spirits from any immediate container (other than a container stamped under section 5205(a) or section 5235) bearing any stamp, mark, or brand required by law without effacing and obliterating such stamp, mark, or brand as required by section 5205(g); or "(4) with intent to defraud the United States, falsely make, forge, alter, or counterfeit any stamp required under section 5205 or section 5235; or "(5) use, sell, or have in his possession any forged or fraudulently altered stamp, or counterfeit of any stamp, required under section 5205 or section 5235, or any plate or die used or which may be used in the manufacture thereof; or "(6) with intent to defraud the United States, use, reuse, sell, or have in his possession any stamp required to be destroyed by section 5205(a)(3) or regulations prescribed pursuant thereto; or "(7) remove any stamp required by law or regulations from any cask or package containing, or which had contained, distilled spirits, without defacing or destroying such stamp at the time of such removal; or "(8) have in his possession any undestroyed or undefaced stamp removed from any cask or package containing, or which had contained, distilled spirits; or "(9) have in his possession any cancelled stamp or any stamp which has been used, or which purports to have been used, upon any cask or package of distilled spirits; or "(10) make, use, sell, or have in his possession any paper in imitation of the paper used in the manufacture of any stamp required under section 5205 or section 5235; or "(11) reuse any stamp required under section 5205(a) or section 5235, after the same shall have once been affixed to a container as provided in such sections or regulations issued pursuant thereto; or "(12) place any distilled spirits in any bottle, or reuse any bottle for the purpose of containing distilled spirits, which has once been filled and stamped under the provisions of this chapter, without removing and destroying the stamp so previously affixed to such bottle; or "(13) affix any stamp issued pursuant to section 5205(a)(2) and (3) to any container containing distilled spirits on which any tax due is unpaid or undetermined; or "(14) make any false statement in any application for stamps under section 5205; or "(15) possess any stamp prescribed under section 5205 or section 5235 obtained by him otherwise than as provided by such sections or regulations issued pursuant thereto; or

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