§ 1551a. Bonded cartmen or lightermen

Statutory text

The Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is, authorized, when it appears to him to be in the interest of commerce, and notwithstanding any provision of law or regulation requiring that the transportation of imported merchandise be by a bonded common carrier, to permit such merchandise which has been entered and examined for customs purposes to be transported by bonded cartmen or bonded lightermen between the ports of New York, Newark, and Perth Amboy, which are all included in Customs Collection District Numbered 10 (New York): Provided, That this resolution shall not be construed to deprive any of the ports affected of its rights and privileges as a port of entry.

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.

1936
Pub. L. 74–611 · 49 Stat. 1538
Enacted · 19 U.S.C. § 1551a
(June 19, 1936, ch. 611, 49 Stat. 1538.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(June 19, 1936, ch. 611, 49 Stat. 1538.)

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Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was not enacted as part of Tariff Act of 1930 which comprises this chapter.

Credits

(June 19, 1936, ch. 611, 49 Stat. 1538.)