Title 19 — Customs Duties
Chapter 1 — Collection Districts, Ports, and Officers
§ 66. Rules and forms prescribed by Secretary
Statutory text
The Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe forms of entries, oaths, bonds, and other papers, and rules and regulations not inconsistent with law, to be used in carrying out the provisions of law relating to raising revenue from imports, or to duties on imports, or to warehousing, and shall give such directions to customs officers and prescribe such rules and forms to be observed by them as may be necessary for the proper execution of the 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. § 251 (part)
Enacted · 19 U.S.C. § 66
R.S. § 251 (part)
Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.
Source evidence
Code source credit
R.S. § 251 (part)Pub. L. 91–271 title III § 308 · 84 Stat. 273
Substituted · 19 U.S.C. § 66
Pub. L. 91–271 substituted reference to customs officers for reference to collectors
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 91–271 substituted reference to customs officers for reference to collectors.Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 308. Section 251 of the Revised Statutes (19 U.S.C. 66) is amended by striking the word “collectors” and inserting in lieu thereof “customs officers”.Effective date note
Amendment by Pub. L. 91–271 effective with respect to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption on or after Oct. 1, 1970, and such other articles entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption prior to such date, or with respect to which a protest has not been disallowed in whole or in part before Oct. 1, 1970, see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
R.S. § 251 derived from acts Feb. 10, 1830, ch. 11, §§ 14, 15, 3 Stat. 543; Aug. 6, 1846, ch. 84, § 5, 9 Stat. 55; , Res. 9, 11 Stat. 144; June 30, 1864, ch. 172, § 8, 13 Stat. 221; July 14, 1870, ch. 255, § 34, 16 Stat. 271. R.S. § 251, which was also classified in part to section 427 of former Title 31, was repealed in part and reenacted as section 321(a)(5) of Title 31, Money and Finance, by Pub. L. 97–258, § 4(b), , 96 Stat. 1067.
Amendments
1970—Pub. L. 91–271 substituted reference to customs officers for reference to collectors.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date of 1970 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 91–271 effective with respect to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption on or after , and such other articles entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption prior to such date, or with respect to which a protest has not been disallowed in whole or in part before , see section 203 of Pub. L. 91–271, set out as a note under section 1500 of this title.
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
All offices of collector of customs, comptroller of customs, surveyor of customs, and appraiser of merchandise in Bureau of Customs of Department of the Treasury to which appointments were required to be made by President with advice and consent of Senate ordered abolished, with such offices to be terminated not later than , by Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1965, eff. , 30 F.R. 7035, 79 Stat. 1317, set out as a note under section 1 of this title. All functions of offices eliminated were already vested in Secretary of the Treasury by Reorg. Plan No. 26 of 1950, eff. , 15 F.R. 4935, 64 Stat. 1280, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
Credits
1970 · 2 acts
- R.S. § 251 (part)
- 1970Pub. L. 91–271, title III, § 308, , 84 Stat. 292.
Show as published
(R.S. § 251 (part); Pub. L. 91–271, title III, § 308, , 84 Stat. 292.)