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Title 31 — Money and Finance

Chapter 3 — Department of the Treasury

§ 308. United States Customs Service

Statutory text

The United States Customs Service, established under section 1 of the Act of March 3, 1927 (19 U.S.C. 2071), is a service in the Department of the Treasury.

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.

  1. Pub. L. 97–258 · 96 Stat. 880

    Enacted · 31 U.S.C. § 308

    (Pub. L. 97–258, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 880.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 97–258, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 880.)

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Notes

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Historical and Revision Notes
Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large)
308(no source).

The section is included to provide in subchapter I of chapter 3 of the revised title a complete list of the organizational units established by law that are in the Department of the Treasury or are subject to the direction and supervision of the Secretary of the Treasury.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Transfer of Functions

For transfer of functions, personnel, assets, and liabilities of the United States Customs Service of the Department of the Treasury, including functions of the Secretary of the Treasury relating thereto, to the Secretary of Homeland Security, and for treatment of related references, see sections 203(1), 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. For establishment of U.S. Customs and Border Protection in the Department of Homeland Security, treated as if included in Pub. L. 107–296 as of , see section 211 of Title 6, as amended generally by Pub. L. 114–125, and section 802(b) of Pub. L. 114–125, set out as a note under section 211 of Title 6.

Executive Documents

Change of Name

Bureau of Customs redesignated United States Customs Service by Treasury Department Order 165–23, , eff. , 38 F.R. 13037.

Credits

(Pub. L. 97–258, , 96 Stat. 880.)

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