Title 19 — Customs Duties
Part 5 · Chapter 3 — The Tariff and Related Provisions
§ 528. Appropriate customs officer to receive amount recovered
Statutory text
The appropriate customs officer within whose district any seizure shall be made or forfeiture incurred for any violation of the duty laws is authorized to receive from the court within which trial is had, or from the proper officer thereof, the sum recovered, after deducting all proper charges to be allowed by the court; and on receipt thereof he shall pay and distribute the same without delay, according to law.
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.
R.S. § 3087
Enacted · 19 U.S.C. § 528
R.S. § 3087
Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.
Source evidence
Code source credit
R.S. § 3087Pub. L. 91–271 title III § 319 · 84 Stat. 273
Substituted · 19 U.S.C. § 528
Pub. L. 91–271 substituted reference to the appropriate customs officer for reference to the collector
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 91–271 substituted reference to the appropriate customs officer for reference to the collector.Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 319. Section 2863 and 3087 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (19 U.S.C. 341 and 528), are amended by striking the word “collector” 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 unresolved
Editorial Notes
Codification
This section was derived from R.S. § 3087, which, however, contained a further provision requiring collectors to cause suits to be commenced without delay and prosecuted to effect. That provision was omitted as inconsistent with section 604 of act Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 356, 42 Stat. 984, constituting former section 511 of this title. Act , was repealed by act , but section 604 of the latter Act, constituting section 1604 of this title, reenacted section 604 of the former Act.
Amendments
1970—Pub. L. 91–271 substituted reference to the appropriate customs officer for reference to the collector.
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.
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
Functions of all 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 those 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. Customs officers, referred to in this section, are under Department of the Treasury.
Credits
1930–1970 · 3 acts
- R.S. § 3087
- 1930June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title IV, § 604, 46 Stat. 754
- 1970Pub. L. 91–271, title III, § 319, , 84 Stat. 293.
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(R.S. § 3087; June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title IV, § 604, 46 Stat. 754; Pub. L. 91–271, title III, § 319, , 84 Stat. 293.)