[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3414 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3414

 To amend title 39, United States Code, to grant State governments the 
     discretion to assign mailing addresses to sites within their 
                             jurisdiction.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 28, 1993

Mr. Saxton (for himself, Mr. Gallo, Mr. Ridge, Mr. Smith of New Jersey, 
 and Mr. Zimmer) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
             the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 39, United States Code, to grant State governments the 
     discretion to assign mailing addresses to sites within their 
                             jurisdiction.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That chapter 4 of title 
39, United States Code (relating to the authority of the United States 
Postal Service) is amended--
            (1) by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 414. Authority of State governments to designate mailing 
              addresses
    ``(a) Notwithstanding section 404(a)(1), State governments shall 
have the discretion to designate mailing addresses for all sites within 
their jurisdiction.
    ``(b) Whenever a State government designates a mailing address 
under subsection (a), such government shall include as part of such 
mailing address--
            ``(1) the name of the municipality in which the site of 
        such address is geographically situated; and
            ``(2) the ZIP code number assigned to the site of such 
        address by the Postal Service.
    ``(c) A mailing address designated by a State government under 
paragraph subsection (a) shall become effective 30 days after the 
Postal Service receives written notice from such government of the 
designation of such address, subject to subsection (d).
    ``(d) Notification under subsection (c) shall not become effective 
unless the postmaster for each post office responsible for delivering 
mail to any of the proposed addresses reviews and makes recommendations 
to ensure that duplicative street names and faulty numbering systems do 
not exist within the jurisdiction involved.''; and
            (2) by inserting in the table of sections, after the item 
        relating to section 413, the following:

``414. Authority of State governments to designate mailing 
                            addresses.''.

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