An Act to implement the Convention on Offenses and certain other acts committed on board aircraft, and for other purposes
PL 91-449 (S.2176), enacted 10/14/1970

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PUBLIC LAW 9 1 - 4 4 9 - O C T . 14, 1970 
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"Whoever makes, or knowingly uses or sells, or possesses with intent 
to use or sell, any paper bearing the watermark of any stamped 
envelope, or postal card, or any fraudulent imitation thereof; or 
"Whoever makes or prints, or authorizes to be made or printed, any 
postage stamp, postage meter stamp, stamped envelope, or postal card, 
of the kind authorized and provided by the Post Office Department 
or by the Postal Service, without the special authority and direction 
of the Department or Postal Service; or 
"Whoever after such postage stamp, postage meter stamp, stamped 
envelope, or postal card has been printed, with intent to defraud, 
delivers the same to any person not authorized by an instrument in 
writing, duly executed under the hand of the Postmaster General and 
the seal of the Post Office Department or the Postal Service, to 
receive it— 
"Shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than five Penalty, 
years, or both." 
(b) Section 6(j) (6) of the Postal Reorganization Act is repealed. 
Repeal. 
SEC. 2. Section 504 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by 
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adding at the end thereof the following: 
ductions. 
"For the purposes of this section the term 'postage stamp' includes 82^818*^2407'' 
postage meter stamps." 
Approved October 14, 1970. 
Public Law 91-449 
A N A C T 
October 14, 1970 
To implement the Convention on Offenses and Certain Other Acts Committed 
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on Board Aircraft, and for other purposes. 
Be a enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemoled^ That— 
Federal Aviation 
(1) A new subsection (32) be inserted in section 101 of the Federal ^''^ °^ ^^^f' 
Aviation Act of 1958 (49 U.S.C. 1301) as follows: 
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"(32) The term 'special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States' 76 stat. 143. 
includes the following aircraft while in 
flight— 
craft^ti^isdic""on 
" (a) civil aircraft of the United States; 
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"(b) aircraft of the national defense forces of the United ^*^**^-" 
States; and 
"(c) any other aircraft— 
"(i) within the United States, or 
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. . .. . ^ . . 
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ii) outside the United States which has its next sched-
uled destination or last point of departure in the United 
States provided that in either case it next actually lands 
in the United States. 
For the purpose of this definition, an aircraft is considered to be in 
flight from the moment when power is applied for the purpose of 
takeoff until the moment when the landing run ends." 
(2) Existing subsections (32), (33), (34), and (35) are renum- 
82 stat. 867. 
bered (33), (34), (35), and (36), respectively. 
(3) Subsections 902 (i), (j), and (k) of such Act (49 U.S.C. 1472 
(i), (j), and (k)) are amended by deleting the words "in flight in air 
75 stat. 466.. 
commerce" wherever they appear in those subsections and substituting 
therefor the words "within the special aircraft jurisdiction of the 
United States." 
Approved October 14, 1970.