Title 19 — Customs Duties
Chapter 1A — Foreign Trade Zones
§ 81l. Facilities to be provided and maintained
Statutory text
Each grantee shall provide and maintain in connection with the zone—
Adequate slips, docks, wharves, warehouses, loading and unloading and mooring facilities where the zone is adjacent to water; or, in the case of an inland zone, adequate loading, unloading, and warehouse facilities;
Adequate transportation connections with the surrounding territory and with all parts of the United States, so arranged as to permit of proper guarding and inspection for the protection of the revenue;
Adequate facilities for coal or other fuel and for light and power;
Adequate water and sewer mains;
Adequate quarters and facilities for the officers and employees of the United States, State, and municipality whose duties may require their presence within the zone;
Adequate enclosures to segregate the zone from customs territory for protection of the revenue, together with suitable provisions for ingress and egress of persons, conveyances, vessels, and merchandise;
Such other facilities as may be required by the Board.
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.
Pub. L. 73–590 § 12 · 48 Stat. 998
Enacted · 19 U.S.C. § 81l
(June 18, 1934, ch. 590, § 12, 48 Stat. 1001.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(June 18, 1934, ch. 590, § 12, 48 Stat. 1001.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 12. Each grantee shall provide and maintain in connection Facilities each zone must have and maintain. with the zone— (a) Adequate slips, docks, wharves, warehouses, loading and unloading and mooring facilities where the zone is adjacent to water; or, in the case of an inland zone, adequate loading, unloading, and warehouse facilities; (b) Adequate transportation connections with the surrounding territory and with all parts of the United States, so arranged as to permit of proper guarding and inspection for the protection of the revenue; (c) Adequate facilities for coal or other fuel and for light and power; (d) Adequate water and sewer mains; (e) Adequate quarters and facilities for the officers and employees of the United States, State, and municipality whose duties may require their presence within the zone; (f ) Adequate enclosures to segregate the zone from customs territory for protection of the revenue, together with suitable provisions for ingress and egress of persons, conveyances, vessels, and merchandise; (g) Such other facilities as may be required by the Board.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Credits
(June 18, 1934, ch. 590, § 12, 48 Stat. 1001.)