2015 US Code
Title 19 - Customs Duties (Sections 1 - 4210)
Chapter 4 - Tariff Act of 1930 (Sections 1202 - 1683g)
Subtitle II - Special Provisions (Sections 1301 - 1367)
Part I - Miscellaneous (Sections 1301 - 1323)
Sec. 1310 - Free importation of merchandise recovered from sunken and abandoned vessels
| Publication Title | United States Code, 2012 Edition, Supplement 3, Title 19 - CUSTOMS DUTIES |
| Category | Bills and Statutes |
| Collection | United States Code |
| SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
| Contained Within | Title 19 - CUSTOMS DUTIES CHAPTER 4 - TARIFF ACT OF 1930 SUBTITLE II - SPECIAL PROVISIONS Part I - Miscellaneous Sec. 1310 - Free importation of merchandise recovered from sunken and abandoned vessels |
| Contains | section 1310 |
| Date | 2015 |
| Laws In Effect As Of Date | January 3, 2016 |
| Positive Law | No |
| Disposition | standard |
| Source Credit | June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title III, §310, 46 Stat. 691. |
| Statutes at Large References | 38 Stat. 197 42 Stat. 938 46 Stat. 691 |
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Whenever any vessel laden with merchandise, in whole or in part subject to duty, has been sunk in any river, harbor, bay, or waters subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, and within its limits, for the period of two years and is abandoned by the owner thereof, any person who may raise such vessel shall be permitted to bring any merchandise recovered therefrom into the port nearest to the place where such vessel was so raised free from the payment of any duty thereupon, but under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe.
(June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title III, §310, 46 Stat. 691.)
PRIOR PROVISIONSProvisions similar to those in this section were contained in act Oct. 3, 1913, ch. 16, §IV, L, 38 Stat. 197, superseding similar provisions of previous tariff acts. That section was superseded by act Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 356, title III, §310, 42 Stat. 938, and repealed by section 321 of that act. Section 310 of act Sept. 21, 1922, was superseded by section 310 of act June 17, 1930, and repealed by section 651(a)(1) of the 1930 act.
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