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Title 19 — Customs Duties

Chapter 28 — Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement

§ 4402. Illicitly imported, exported, or trafficked cultural property, archaeological or ethnological materials, and fish, wildlife, and plants

Statutory text

(a)

In general

The Commissioner and the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shall ensure that appropriate personnel of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as the case may be, are trained in the detection, identification, detention, seizure, and forfeiture of cultural property, archaeological or ethnological materials, and fish, wildlife, and plants, the importation, exportation, or trafficking of which violates the laws of the United States.

(b)

Training

The Commissioner and the Director are authorized to accept training and other support services from experts outside of the Federal Government with respect to the detection, identification, detention, seizure, and forfeiture of cultural property, archaeological or ethnological materials, or fish, wildlife, and plants described in subsection (a).

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.

  1. Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015

    Pub. L. 114–125 title VI § 606 · 130 Stat. 122

    Enacted · 19 U.S.C. § 4402

    (Pub. L. 114–125, title VI, § 606, Feb. 24, 2016, 130 Stat. 188.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 114–125, title VI, § 606, Feb. 24, 2016, 130 Stat. 188.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 606. ILLICITLY IMPORTED, EXPORTED, OR TRAFFICKED CULTURAL PROPERTY, ARCHAEOLOGICAL OR ETHNOLOGICAL MATERIALS, AND FISH, WILDLIFE, AND PLANTS. (a) In General.— The Commissioner and the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shall ensure that appropriate personnel of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as the case may be, are trained in the detection, identification, detention, seizure, and forfeiture of cultural property, archaeological or ethnological materials, and fish, wildlife, and plants, the importation, exportation, or trafficking of which violates the laws of the United States. (b) Training.— The Commissioner and the Director are authorized to accept training and other support services from experts outside of the Federal Government with respect to the detection, identification, detention, seizure, and forfeiture of cultural property, archaeological or ethnological materials, or fish, wildlife, and plants described in subsection (a).

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 114–125, title VI, § 606, , 130 Stat. 188.)

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