[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3768 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3768

  To require that any city that is completely surrounded by any other 
                city must be assigned its own ZIP codes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 1, 2000

   Mr. Horn introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require that any city that is completely surrounded by any other 
                city must be assigned its own ZIP codes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. ZIP CODE REQUIREMENT.

    (a) Requirement.--Effective 1 year after the date of enactment of 
this Act, no ZIP code that is assigned to a city (or portion of a city) 
that is completely surrounded by any other city may also be assigned to 
any area outside of the city so surrounded.
    (b) Definition.--For purposes of this section, the term ``city'' 
means any unit of general local government that is classified as a 
city, town, or municipality by the Bureau of the Census, and within the 
boundaries of which 5,000 or more individuals reside.
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