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Title 40 — Public Buildings, Property, and Works

Chapter 173 — Government Losses in Shipment

§ 17309. Rules and regulations

Statutory text

(a)

General Authority.—

With the approval of the President, the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe regulations necessary to carry out the duties and powers vested in the Secretary under this chapter.

(b)

Providing Information.—

To carry out subsection (a), the Secretary may require a person making a shipment of valuables or a claim for replacement to make a declaration or to provide other information the Secretary considers necessary.

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. 107–217 · 116 Stat. 1062

    Enacted · 40 U.S.C. § 17309

    (Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1283.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1283.)

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Notes

historicalAndRevision
Historical and Revision Notes
RevisedSectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large)
17309(a)40:728 (words before 3d comma).July 8, 1937, ch. 444, § 6, 50 Stat. 480.
17309(b)40:728 (words after 3d comma).

Executive Documents

Delegation of Functions

For delegation to Secretary of the Treasury of authority vested in President by section 728 of former Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works (which was repealed and reenacted as this section by Pub. L. 107–217, §§ 1, 6(b), , 116 Stat. 1062, 1304), see section 2(a) of Ex. Ord. No. 10289, eff. , 16 F.R. 9409, set out as a note under section 301 of Title 3, The President.

Credits

(Pub. L. 107–217, , 116 Stat. 1283.)

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