Title 48 — Territories and Insular Possessions
Chapter 7 — Virgin Islands
§ 1402. Extension of industrial alcohol and internal revenue laws to Virgin Islands
Statutory text
Title III of the National Prohibition Act, as amended, and all provisions of the internal revenue laws relating to the enforcement thereof, are extended to and made applicable to the Virgin Islands, from and after . The Insular Government shall advance to the Treasury of the United States such funds as may be required from time to time by the Secretary of the Treasury for the purpose of defraying all expenses incurred by the Treasury Department in connection with the enforcement in the Virgin Islands of the said Title III and regulations promulgated thereunder. The funds so advanced shall be deposited in a separate trust fund in the Treasury of the United States and shall be available to the Treasury Department for the purposes of this section.
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. 74–830 · 49 Stat. 1028
Enacted · 48 U.S.C. § 1402
(June 26, 1936, ch. 830, title III, § 329(c), 49 Stat. 1957.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(June 26, 1936, ch. 830, title III, § 329(c), 49 Stat. 1957.)
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
References in Text
The National Prohibition Act, as amended, referred to in text, is act Oct. 28, 1919, ch. 85, 41 Stat. 305. Title III of such Act was classified principally to chapter 3 (§ 71 et seq.) of Title 27, Intoxicating Liquors, and was omitted from the Code in view of the incorporation of such provisions in the Internal Revenue Code of 1939, and subsequently into the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
Codification
Provisions similar to those comprising this section relating to Puerto Rico are classified to section 734a of this title.
Credits
(June 26, 1936, ch. 830, title III, § 329(c), 49 Stat. 1957.)