Title 19 — Customs Duties
Part I · Chapter 4 — Tariff Act of 1930
§ 1310. Free importation of merchandise recovered from sunken and abandoned vessels
Statutory text
Whenever any vessel laden with merchandise, in whole or in part subject to duty, has been sunk in any river, harbor, bay, or waters subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, and within its limits, for the period of two years and is abandoned by the owner thereof, any person who may raise such vessel shall be permitted to bring any merchandise recovered therefrom into the port nearest to the place where such vessel was so raised free from the payment of any duty thereupon, but under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 71–497 · 46 Stat. 590
Enacted · 19 U.S.C. § 1310
(June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title III, § 310, 46 Stat. 691.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title III, § 310, 46 Stat. 691.)
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Editorial Notes
Prior Provisions
Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in act Oct. 3, 1913, ch. 16, § IV, L, 38 Stat. 197, superseding similar provisions of previous tariff acts. That section was superseded by act Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 356, title III, § 310, 42 Stat. 938, and repealed by section 321 of that act. Section 310 of act , was superseded by section 310 of act , and repealed by section 651(a)(1) of the 1930 act.
Credits
(June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title III, § 310, 46 Stat. 691.)