[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 19, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 19CFR101.6]

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                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
  CHAPTER I--UNITED STATES CUSTOMS SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
 
PART 101--GENERAL PROVISIONS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 101.6  Hours of business.

    Except as specified in paragraphs (a) through (g) of this section, 
each Customs office shall be open for the transactions of general 
Customs business between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. on all days 
of the year:
    (a) Saturdays, Sundays and national holidays. In addition to 
Saturdays, Sundays, and any other calendar day designated as a holiday 
by Federal statute or Executive Order, Customs offices shall be closed 
on the following national holidays:
    (1) The first day of January.
    (2) The third Monday of February.
    (3) The last Monday of May.
    (4) The fourth day of July.
    (5) The first Monday of September.
    (6) The second Monday of October.
    (7) The eleventh day of November.
    (8) The fourth Thursday of November.
    (9) The twenty-fifth day of December.

If a holiday falls on Saturday, the day immediately preceding such 
Saturday will be observed. If a holiday falls on Sunday, the day 
immediately following such Sunday will be observed. (5 U.S.C. 
6103(b)(1)); (E.O. No. 11582, Jan. 1, 1971; 34 FR 2957; 3 CFR Ch. 11)
    (b) Local conditions requiring different hgurs. If, because of local 
conditions,

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different but equivalent hours are required to maintain adequate 
service, such hours shall be observed provided the Commissioner of 
Customs approves them and provided further that a notice of business 
hours is prominently displayed at the principal entrance and in each 
public room of the Customs office.
    (c) Fixing of hours. At each port or station where there is no full-
time Customs employee, the port director shall fix the hours during 
which the Customs office will be open for the transaction of general 
Customs business. Notice of such hours shall be prominently displayed at 
the principal entrance of the office.
    (d) State and local holidays. Each Customs office shall be open for 
the transaction of business on all State and local holidays occurring on 
days other than Saturdays, Sundays, and national holidays listed in 
paragraph (a) of this section. The appropriate principal field officer 
may excuse any employee(s) without charge to leave when a state or local 
holiday interferes with the performance of his work in a Customs office.
    (e) Services performed outside a Customs office. Customs services 
required to be performed outside a Customs office shall be furnished 
between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. (or between the corresponding 
hours at ports where different but equivalent hours are required for the 
maintenance of adequate service) on all days when the Customs office is 
open for the transaction of general Customs business.
    (f) Customs services not within prescribed hours. Where there is a 
regularly recurring need for Customs services outside the hours 
prescribed in paragraphs (a) through (e) of this section and the volume 
and duration of the required services are uniformly such as to require, 
of themselves or in immediately consecutive combination with other 
essential Customs activities of the port, the full time of one or more 
Customs employees, the necessary number of regular tours of duty to 
furnish such services on all days of the year except Sundays and 
national holidays may be established with the approval of the 
Commissioner of Customs.
    (g) Customs services furnished private interests. Other than as 
specified in this section. Customs services shall be furnished private 
interests only in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 24.16 of this 
chapter.

[T.D. 77-241, 42 FR 54937, Oct. 12, 1977, as amended by T.D. 82-145, 47 
FR 35478, Aug. 16, 1982; T.D. 95-77, 60 FR 50019, Sept. 27, 1995]