[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 19, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2002]
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[CITE: 19CFR12.62]

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                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
  CHAPTER I--UNITED STATES CUSTOMS SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
 
PART 12--SPECIAL CLASSES OF MERCHANDISE--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 12.62  Enforcement; duties of Customs officers.

    (a) In accordance with the authority contained in sections 10 and 12 
of the act, Customs officers shall arrest or cause to be arrested 
persons violating the provisions of the act or of any regulation made 
pursuant thereto; shall search vessels when there is reasonable cause to 
believe that such vessels are subject to seizure under the act, shall 
seize any vessel used or employed or which it appears has been or is 
about to be used or employed in violation of the act or any regulation 
made pursuant thereto; and shall seize fur seals and sea otters, or the 
skins thereof, killed, captured, transported, imported, offered for 
sale, or possessed by any person contrary to the provisions of the act 
or of any regulation made pursuant thereto.
    (b) All articles, including vessels and equipment, seized by Customs 
officers for violation of the act shall be turned over to the nearest 
officer or agent of the Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the 
Interior, for appropriate disposition under the act, receipts to be 
taken in duplicate therefor. One copy of each such receipt shall be 
transmitted to Headquarters, U.S. Customs Service with a detailed report 
of the facts in the particular case involved.

[28 FR 14710, Dec. 31, 1963, as amended by T.D. 89-1, 53 FR 51253, Dec. 
21, 1988]