Title 19 — Customs Duties
Part 5 · Chapter 3 — The Tariff and Related Provisions
§ 540. President may use suitable vessels for enforcing customs laws
Statutory text
In the execution of laws providing for the collection of duties on imports and tonnage, the President, in addition to the Coast Guard vessels in service, may employ in aid thereof such other suitable vessels as may, in his judgment, be required.
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. § 5318
Enacted · 19 U.S.C. § 540
R.S. § 5318
Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.
Source evidence
Code source credit
R.S. § 5318
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved
Editorial Notes
Codification
R.S. § 5318 derived from act July 13, 1861, ch. 3, § 7, 12 Stat. 257.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Transfer of Functions
For transfer of authorities, functions, personnel, and assets of the Coast Guard, including the authorities and functions of the Secretary of Transportation relating thereto, to the Department of Homeland Security, and for treatment of related references, see sections 468(b), 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.
“Coast Guard vessels” substituted in text for “revenue-cutters”, the Revenue Cutter Service and the Life-Saving Service having been combined to form the Coast Guard by section 1 of act . That act was repealed by section 20 of act , section 1 of which reestablished the Coast Guard by enacting Title 14, Coast Guard.
Executive Documents
Delegation of Functions
For delegation to Secretary of the Treasury of authority vested in President by this section, see section 1(i) of Ex. Ord. No. 10289, , 16 F.R. 9499, as amended, set out as a note under section 301 of Title 3, The President.
Credits
1915–1949 · 3 acts
- R.S. § 5318
- 1915Jan. 28, 1915, ch. 20, § 1, 38 Stat. 800
- 1949Aug. 4, 1949, ch. 393, §§ 1, 20, 63 Stat. 496, 561.
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(R.S. § 5318; Jan. 28, 1915, ch. 20, § 1, 38 Stat. 800; Aug. 4, 1949, ch. 393, §§ 1, 20, 63 Stat. 496, 561.)