[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1592 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1592

  To require the Postmaster General to redraw ZIP code boundaries to 
                  coincide with community boundaries.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 9, 1995

  Mr. McKeon introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
              Committee on Government Reform and Oversight

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require the Postmaster General to redraw ZIP code boundaries to 
                  coincide with community boundaries.
    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. REDRAWING OF ZIP CODE BOUNDARIES TO COINCIDE WITH COMMUNITY 
              BOUNDARIES.

     (a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Postmaster General shall establish 
procedures to provide that boundaries delimiting any area included 
within any particular ZIP code do not cross the boundary of any 
community.
     (b) Limitation.--For purposes of subsection (a), areas having the 
same 1st 5 ZIP code digits shall be considered to have the same ZIP 
code.
SEC 2. DEFINITIONS.

    For purposes of this Act:
            (1) Community.--The term ``community'' means a political 
        subdivision of a unit of general local government, as 
        determined by the unit of general local government.
            (2) Unit of general local government.--The term ``unit of 
        general local government'' means any city, county, town, 
        township, village, or other general purpose political 
        subdivision as established by a State.
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