§ 741a. Internal-revenue taxes; levy and collection; discrimination

Statutory text

The internal-revenue taxes levied by the Legislature of Puerto Rico in pursuance of the authority granted by this chapter on articles, goods, wares, or merchandise may be levied and collected as such legislature may direct, on the articles subject to said tax, as soon as the same are manufactured, sold, used, or brought into the island: Provided, That no discrimination be made between the articles imported from the United States or foreign countries and similar articles produced or manufactured in Puerto Rico. The officials of the Customs and Postal Services of the United States are directed to assist the appropriate officials of the Puerto Rican government in the collection of these taxes.

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.

1917
Pub. L. 64–145 § 3 · 39 Stat. 226
Enacted · 48 U.S.C. § 741a
Mar. 2, 1917, ch. 145, § 3, 39 Stat. 953
Source evidence
Code source credit
Mar. 2, 1917, ch. 145, § 3, 39 Stat. 953

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Editorial Notes

References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning act Mar. 2, 1917, ch. 145, 39 Stat. 951, known as the Puerto Rican Federal Relations Act and also popularly known as the Jones Act, which is classified principally to the chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 731 of this title and Tables.

Codification

Section is comprised of last part of section 3 of act Mar. 2, 1917, as added by act Mar. 4, 1927. The first two parts are classified to sections 741 and 745 of this title.

Amendments

1937—Act Aug. 26, 1937, reenacted section without substantive change.

Credits

1917–1937 · 3 acts

1917Mar. 2, 1917, ch. 145, § 3, 39 Stat. 953
1927Mar. 4, 1927, ch. 503, § 1, 44 Stat. 1418
1937Aug. 26, 1937, ch. 831, 50 Stat. 844.

Show as published

(Mar. 2, 1917, ch. 145, § 3, 39 Stat. 953; Mar. 4, 1927, ch. 503, § 1, 44 Stat. 1418; Aug. 26, 1937, ch. 831, 50 Stat. 844.)