---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 1734"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "1734"
heading: "Editorials and other matter as “advertisements”"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/1734"
units:
  - "Part I — Crimes"
  - "Chapter 83 — Postal Service"
---

# §1734. Editorials and other matter as “advertisements”


[Whoever](/usc/18/921.md?p=a-1), being an editor or publisher, prints in a publication entered as second class mail, editorial or other reading matter for which he has been paid or promised a valuable consideration, without plainly marking the same “advertisement” shall be fined under this title.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 86–682, § 7, Sept. 2, 1960, 74 Stat. 706; amended Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(G), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1994—Pub. L. 103–322 substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $500”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Sept. 1, 1960, see section 11 of Pub. L. 86–682, Sept. 2, 1960, 74 Stat. 708.