Publications for the blind

§ 4653. Publications for the blind (a) The following matter may be mailed free of postage— (1) books, pamphlets, and other reading matter: (A) published either in raised characters, whether prepared by hand, or printed, or in the form of sound reproduction records, for use of the blind; (B) in packages not exceeding the weight prescribed by the Postmaster General; (C) containing no advertising or other matter whatever; (D) unsealed; (E) sent by public institutions for the blind or by any public library as a loan to blind readers, or when returned by the latter to the institutions or public libraries; and (2) magazines, periodicals and other regularly issued publications : (A) published either in raised characters, whether prepared by hand or printed, or in the form of sound reproduction records, for the use of the blind; (B) containing no advertising; (C) for which no subscription fee is charged; and (3) books or pages thereof: (A) published in raised characters, whether prepared by hand or printed; (B) containing no advertising; (C) sent to a blind person without cost to the blind person. (b) There may be mailed at the rate of postage of one cent for each pound or fraction thereof, magazines, periodicals, and other regularly issued publications— (1) published either in raised characters, whether prepared by hand or printed, or in the form of sound reproduction records, for the use of the blind; (2) containing no advertisements; and (3) when furnished by an organization, institution, or association not conducted for private profit, to a blind person, at a price not greater than the cost price thereof. (c) Volumes of the Holy Scriptures or part thereof, published either in raised characters, whether prepared by hand or printed or in the form of sound reproduction records for the use of the blind, which do not contain advertisements— (1) when furnished to a blind person without charge by an organization, institution, or association not conducted for private profit, may be mailed free of postage; and (2) when furnished to a blind person at a price not greater than the cost thereof by an organization, institution, or association, not conducted for private profit, may be mailed at the rate of one cent for each pound or fraction thereof.