2019 US Code
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
| 19 U.S.C. § 1310 (2019) |
| §1310. Free importation of merchandise recovered from sunken and abandoned vessels |
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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. |
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(June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title III, §310, 46 Stat. 691.) |
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PRIOR PROVISIONS
Provisions 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 That section was superseded by act Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 356, title III, §310, 42 Stat. 938, and repealed by section 321 of that act. Section 310 of act Sept. 21, 1922, was superseded by section 310 of act June 17, 1930, and repealed by section 651(a)(1) of the 1930 act. |
| United States Code, 2018 Edition, Supplement 1, Title 19 - CUSTOMS DUTIES |
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| 38 Stat. 197 42 Stat. 938 46 Stat. 691 |
