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18 U.S.C. § 1301 — Importing or transporting lottery tickets

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18 U.S.C. § 1301 — Importing or transporting lottery tickets

Whoever brings into the United States for the purpose of disposing of the same, or knowingly deposits with any express company or other common carrier for carriage, or carries in interstate or foreign commerce any paper, certificate, or instrument purporting to be or to represent a ticket, chance, share, or interest in or dependent upon the event of a lottery, gift enterprise, or similar scheme, offering prizes dependent in whole or in part upon lot or chance, or any advertisement of, or list of the prizes drawn or awarded by means of, any such lottery, gift enterprise, or similar scheme; or, being engaged in the business of procuring for a person in 1 State such a ticket, chance, share, or interest in a lottery, gift,11 So in original. The comma probably should not appear. enterprise or similar scheme conducted by another State (unless that business is permitted under an agreement between the States in question or appropriate authorities of those States), knowingly transmits in interstate or foreign commerce information to be used for the purpose of procuring such a ticket, chance, share, or interest; or knowingly takes or receives any such paper, certificate, instrument, advertisement, or list so brought, deposited, or transported, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.

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18 U.S.C. § 10 — Interstate commerce and foreign commerce defined

The term “interstate commerce”, as used in this title, includes commerce between one State, Territory, Possession, or the District of Columbia and another State, Territory, Possession, or the District of Columbia.

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18 U.S.C. § 2 — Principals

**(a)** Whoever commits an offense against the United States or aids, abets, counsels, commands, induces or procures its commission, is punishable as a principal. **(b)** Whoever willfully causes an act to be done which if directly performed by him or another would be an offense against the United States, is punishable as a principal.

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39 U.S.C. § 3005 — False representations; lotteries

**(a)** Upon evidence satisfactory to the Postal Service that any person is engaged in conducting a scheme or device for obtaining money or property through the mail by means of false representations, including the mailing of matter which is nonmailable under section 3001(d), (h), (i), (j), or (k) of this title, or is engaged in conducting a lottery, gift enterprise, or scheme for the distribution of money or of real or personal property, by lottery, chance, or drawing of any kind, the Postal Service may issue an order which— (1) directs the postmaster of the post office at which mail arrives, addressed to such a person or to his representative, to return such mail to the sender appropriately marked as in violation of this section, if the person, or his representative, is first notified and given reasonable opportunity to be present at the receiving post office to survey the mail before the postmaster returns the mail to the sender; (2) forbids the payment by a postmaster to the person or his representative of any money order or postal note drawn to the order of either and provides for the return to the remitter of the sum named in the money order or postal note; and (3) requires the person or his representative to cease and desist from engaging in any such scheme, device, lottery, or gift enterprise. For purposes of the preceding sentence, the mailing of matter which is nonmailable under such section 3001(d), (h), (i), (j), or (k) by any person shall constitute prima facie evidence that such person is engaged in conducting a scheme or device for obtaining money or property through the mail by false representations. **(b)** The public advertisement by a person engaged in activities covered by subsection (a) of this section, that remittances may be made by mail to a

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18 U.S.C. § 1301 — Importing or transporting lottery tickets

Page 360 TITLE 18—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE § 1301 1 So in original. The comma probably should not appear. Sec. 1305. Fishing contests. 1306. Participation by financial institutions. 1307. Exceptions relating to certain advertisements and other information and to State-con- ducted lotteries. 1308. Limitation of applicability. Editorial Notes AMENDMENTS 2014—Pub. L. 113–251, § 4(b), Dec. 18, 2014, 128 Stat. 2890, added item 1308. 1988—Pub. L. 100–625, § 3(a)(2), Nov. 7, 1988, 102 Stat. 3206, substituted ‘‘Exceptions relating to certain adver- tisements and other information and to State-con- ducted lotteries’’ for ‘‘State-conducted lotteries’’ in item 1307. 1975—Pub. L. 93–583, § 2, Jan. 2, 1975, 88 Stat. 1916, added item 1307. 1967—Pub. L. 90–203, § 5(b), Dec. 15, 1967, 81 Stat. 611, added item 1306. 1950—Act Aug. 16, 1950, ch. 722, § 2, 64 Stat. 452, added item 1305. 1949—Act May 24, 1949, ch. 139, § 33, 63 Stat. 94, sub- stituted ‘‘as’’ for ‘‘at’’ in item 1303. § 1301. Importing or transporting lottery tickets Whoever brings into the United States for the purpose of disposing of the same, or knowingly deposits with any express company or other common carrier for carriage, or carries in inter- state or foreign commerce any paper, certifi- cate, or instrument purporting to be or to rep- resent a ticket, chance, share, or interest in or dependent upon the event of a lottery, gift en- terprise, or similar scheme, offering prizes de- pendent in whole or in part upon lot or chance, or any advertisement of, or list of the prizes drawn or awarded by means of, any such lottery, gift enterprise, or similar scheme; or, being en- gaged in the business of procuring for a person in 1 State such a ticket, chance, share, or inter- est in a lottery

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