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§3629 Reduced rates for voter registration purposes

Title 39 › Part PART IV— - MAIL MATTER › Chapter CHAPTER 36— - POSTAL RATES, CLASSES, AND SERVICES › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - PROVISIONS RELATING TO MARKET-DOMINANT PRODUCTS › § 3629

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Postal Service must give state/local voter-registration officials the nonprofit rate (sec. 3626) for mailings certified under the National Voter Registration Act of 1993.

Full Legal Text

Title 39, §3629

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The Postal Service shall make available to a State or local voting registration official the rate for any class of mail that is available to a qualified nonprofit organization under section 3626 for the purpose of making a mailing that the official certifies is required or authorized by the National Voter Registration Act of 1993.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The National Voter Registration Act of 1993, referred to in text, is Pub. L. 103–31, May 20, 1993, 107 Stat. 77, which was formerly classified principally to subchapter I–H (§ 1973gg et seq.) of chapter 20 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering in Title 52, Voting and Elections, and is now classified principally to chapter 205 (§ 20501 et seq.) of Title 52. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective (1) with respect to a State that, on
May 20, 1993, has a provision in the constitution of the State that would preclude compliance with section 20501 et seq. of Title 52, Voting and Elections, unless the State maintained separate Federal and State official lists of eligible voters, on the later of Jan. 1, 1996, or the date that is 120 days after the date by which, under the constitution of the State as in effect on
May 20, 1993, it would be legally possible to adopt and place into effect any

Amendments

to the constitution of the State that are necessary to permit compliance with section 20501 et seq. of Title 52 without requiring a special election, and (2) with respect to a State not described above, on Jan. 1, 1995, see section 13 of Pub. L. 103–31, set out as a note under section 20501 of Title 52.

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Citation

39 U.S.C. § 3629

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Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

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