Title 6 — Domestic Security
Part B · Chapter 3 — Security and Accountability for Every Port
§ 923. Random searches of containers
Statutory text
Not later than 1 year after , the Secretary, acting through the Commissioner, shall develop and implement a plan, utilizing best practices for empirical scientific research design and random sampling, to conduct random searches of containers in addition to any targeted or preshipment inspection of such containers required by law or regulation or conducted under any other program conducted by the Secretary. Nothing in this section shall be construed to mean that implementation of the random sampling plan precludes additional searches of containers not inspected pursuant to the plan.
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.
Security and Accountability For Every Port Act of 2006
Pub. L. 109–347 title I § 123 · 120 Stat. 1884
Enacted · 6 U.S.C. § 923
(Pub. L. 109–347, title I, § 123, Oct. 13, 2006, 120 Stat. 1899.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 109–347, title I, § 123, Oct. 13, 2006, 120 Stat. 1899.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 123. RANDOM SEARCHES OF CONTAINERS. Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary, acting through the Commissioner, shall develop and implement a plan, utilizing best practices for empirical scientific research design and random sampling, to conduct random searches of containers in addition to any targeted or preshipment inspection of such containers required by law or regulation or conducted under any other program conducted by the Secretary. Nothing in this section shall be construed to mean that implementation of the random sampling plan precludes additional searches of containers not inspected pursuant to the plan.
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