Title 19 — Customs Duties
Part II · Chapter 4 — Tariff Act of 1930
§ 1467. Special inspection, examination, and search
Statutory text
Whenever a vessel from a foreign port or place or from a port or place in any Territory or possession of the United States arrives at a port or place in the United States or the Virgin Islands, whether directly or via another port or place in the United States or the Virgin Islands, the appropriate customs officer for such port or place of arrival may, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe and for the purpose of assuring compliance with any law, regulation, or instruction which the Secretary of the Treasury or the Customs Service is authorized to enforce, cause inspection, examination, and search to be made of the persons, baggage, and merchandise discharged or unladen from such vessel, whether or not any or all such persons, baggage, or merchandise has previously been inspected, examined, or searched by officers of the customs.
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.
June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title IV, § 467, as added June 25, 1938, ch. 679, § 11, 52 Stat. 1083 · 52 Stat. 1083
Enacted · 19 U.S.C. § 1467
June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title IV, § 467, as added June 25, 1938, ch. 679, § 11, 52 Stat. 1083
Source evidence
Code source credit
June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title IV, § 467, as added June 25, 1938, ch. 679, § 11, 52 Stat. 1083Pub. L. 91–271 title III § 301(g) · 84 Stat. 273
Substituted · 19 U.S.C. § 1467
Pub. L. 91–271 substituted reference to appropriate customs officer for reference to collector of customs
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 91–271 substituted reference to appropriate customs officer for reference to collector of customs.Enacted provision · exact public law section
(g) Section 467 (19 U.S.C. 1467) is amended by striking the words “collector of customs” and inserting in lieu thereof “appropriate customs officer”.Effective date note
For effective date of amendment by Pub. L. 91–271, see section 203 of Pub. L. 91–271, set out as a note under section 1500 of this title.
1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1970—Pub. L. 91–271 substituted reference to appropriate customs officer for reference to collector of customs.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date of 1970 Amendment
For effective date of amendment by Pub. L. 91–271, see section 203 of Pub. L. 91–271, set out as a note under section 1500 of this title.
Effective Date
This section effective on the thirtieth day following , except as otherwise specifically provided, see section 37 of act , set out as an Effective Date of 1938 Amendment note under section 1401 of this title.
Transfer of Functions
For transfer of functions, personnel, assets, and liabilities of the United States Customs Service of the Department of the Treasury, including functions of the Secretary of the Treasury relating thereto, to the Secretary of Homeland Security, and for treatment of related references, see sections 203(1), 551(d), 552(d), and 557 of Title 6, Domestic Security, and the Department of Homeland Security Reorganization Plan of , as modified, set out as a note under section 542 of Title 6. For establishment of U.S. Customs and Border Protection in the Department of Homeland Security, treated as if included in Pub. L. 107–296 as of , see section 211 of Title 6, as amended generally by Pub. L. 114–125, and section 802(b) of Pub. L. 114–125, set out as a note under section 211 of Title 6.
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
Functions of officers of Department of the Treasury and functions of all agencies and employees of such Department transferred, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Treasury, with power vested in him to authorize their performance or performance of any of his functions, by any of such officers, agencies, and employees, by Reorg. Plan No. 26 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, eff. , 15 F.R. 4935, 64 Stat. 1280, 1281, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
Credits
1930–1970 · 2 acts
- 1930June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title IV, § 467, as added June 25, 1938, ch. 679, § 11, 52 Stat. 1083
- 1970amended Pub. L. 91–271, title III, § 301(g), , 84 Stat. 288.
Show as published
(June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title IV, § 467, as added June 25, 1938, ch. 679, § 11, 52 Stat. 1083; amended Pub. L. 91–271, title III, § 301(g), , 84 Stat. 288.)