Title 19 — Customs Duties
Chapter 14 — Convention on Cultural Property
§ 2607. Stolen cultural property
Statutory text
No article of cultural property documented as appertaining to the inventory of a museum or religious or secular public monument or similar institution in any State Party which is stolen from such institution after the effective date of this chapter, or after the date of entry into force of the Convention for the State Party, whichever date is later, may be imported into the United States.
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.
Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act
Pub. L. 97–446 title III § 308 · 96 Stat. 2329
Enacted · 19 U.S.C. § 2607
(Pub. L. 97–446, title III, § 308, Jan. 12, 1983, 96 Stat. 2360.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 97–446, title III, § 308, Jan. 12, 1983, 96 Stat. 2360.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 308. STOLEN CULTURAL PROPERTY. No article of cultural property documented as appertaining to the inventory of a museum or religious or secular public monument or similar institution in any State Party which is stolen from such institution after the effective date of this title, or after the date of entry into force of the Convention for the State Party, whichever date is later, may be imported into the United States.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
For the effective date of this chapter, referred to in text, see section 315 of Pub. L. 97–446, set out as an Effective Date note under section 2601 of this title.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section effective on the 90th day after , or on any date which the President shall prescribe and publish in the Federal Register, with exceptions, see section 315 of Pub. L. 97–446, set out as a note under section 2601 of this title.