Title 21 — Food and Drugs
Chapter 13 — Drug Abuse Prevention and Control
§ 955. Possession on board vessels, etc., arriving in or departing from United States
Statutory text
It shall be unlawful for any person to bring or possess on board any vessel or aircraft, or on board any vehicle of a carrier, arriving in or departing from the United States or the customs territory of the United States, a controlled substance in schedule I or II or a narcotic drug in schedule III or IV, unless such substance or drug is a part of the cargo entered in the manifest or part of the official supplies of the vessel, aircraft, or vehicle.
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.
Controlled Substances Import and Export Act
Pub. L. 91–513 title III § 1005 · 84 Stat. 1236
Enacted · 21 U.S.C. § 955
(Pub. L. 91–513, title III, § 1005, Oct. 27, 1970, 84 Stat. 1287.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 91–513, title III, § 1005, Oct. 27, 1970, 84 Stat. 1287.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 1005. possession on board vessels, etc., arriving in or departing from united states It shall be unlawful for any person to bring or possess on board any vessel or aircraft, or on hoard any vehicle of a carrier, arriving in or departing from the United States or the customs territory of the United States, a controlled substance in schedule I or Ante, p. 1248. II or a narcotic drug in schedule III or IV, unless such substance or drug is a part, of the cargo entered in the manifest or part of the official supplies of the vessel, aircraft., or vehicle.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
Schedules I, II, III, and IV, referred to in text, are set out in section 812(c) of this title.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section effective on first day of seventh calendar month that begins after , see 1105(a) of Pub. L. 91–513, set out as a under section 951 of this title.