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PUBLIC LAW 86-682-SEPT. 2, 1960

(b) The Postmaster General shall prescribe the endorsement to be placed on covers mailed under paragraphs (1)(E), (2), and (3) of section 4152(a) of this title. § 4154. Restrictions on use of penalty mail (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, an oiiicer, executive department or independent establishment of the Government of the United States may not mail, as penalty mail, any article or document unless— (1) a request therefor has been previously received by the department or establishment; or (2) its mailing is required by law. (b) Subsection (a) does not prohibit the mailing, as penalty mail, by an officer, executive department or independent agency of— (1) enclosures reasonably related to the sub j ect matter of official correspondence; (2) informational releases relating to the census of the United States and authorized by title 13; (3) matter concerning the sale of Government securities; (4) forms, blanks, and copies of statutes, rules, regulations, instructions, administrative orders, and interpretations necessary in the administration of the department or establishment; ^5) agricultural bulletins; (6) lists of public documents offered for sale by the Superintendent of Documents; (7) announcements of the publication of maps, atlases, and statistical and other reports offered for sale by the Federal Power Commission as authorized by section 825k of title 16; or (8) articles or documents to educational institutions or public libraries, or to Federal, State, or other public authorities. § 4155. Accounting for penalty covers Executive departments and agencies, independent establishments of the Government, and organizations and persons authorized by law to use penalty mail, shall account for all penalty covers through the Postmaster General as he prescribes. § 4156. Reimbursement for penalty mail service (a) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c) of this section, executive departments and agencies, independent establishments of the Government, and Government corporations concerned shall transfer to the Post Office Department as postal revenue out of any appropriations or funds available to them, as a necessary expense of the appropriations or funds and of the activities concerned, the equivalent amount of postage due, as determined by the Postmaster General, for matter sent in the mails by or to them as penalty mail under authority of section 4152 of this title. (b) The Department of Agriculture shall transfer to the Post Office Department as postal revenues out of any appropriation made to it for that purpose the equivalent amount of postage, as determined by the Postmaster General, for penalty mailings under paragraphs (1)(F) and (4) of subsection (a) of section 4152 of this title. (c) The Library of Congress shall transfer to the Post Office Department as postal revenues out of any appropriations made to it for that purpose the equivalent amount of postage, as determined by the Postmaster General, for penalty mailings under paragraph (5) of subsection (a) of section 4152 of this title.

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