[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: 19CFR134.55]

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                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
  CHAPTER I--UNITED STATES CUSTOMS SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
 
PART 134--COUNTRY OF ORIGIN MARKING--Table of Contents
 
              Subpart F--Articles Found Not Legally Marked
 
Sec. 134.55  Compensation of Customs officers and employees.

    (a) Time for which compensation is charged. The time for which 
compensation is charged shall include all periods devoted to supervision 
and all periods during which Customs officers or employees are away from 
their regular posts of duty by reason of such assignment and for which 
compensation to such officers and employees is provided for by law.
    (b) Applicability--(1) Official hours. The compensation of Customs 
Officers or employees assigned to supervise the exportation, 
destruction, or marking of articles so as to exempt them from the 
application of marking duties shall be computed in accordance with the 
provisions of Secs. 24.16 or 24.17(a)(3), respectively, of this chapter 
when such supervision is performed during a regularly-scheduled tour of 
duty.
    (2) Overtime. When such supervision is performed by a Customs 
Officer or employee in an overtime status, the compensation with respect 
to the overtime shall be computed in accordance with the provisions of 
Sec. 24.16 or Sec. 24.17, respectively, of this chapter.
    (c) Expenses included. In formulating charges for expenses 
pertaining to supervision of exportation, destruction, or marking, there 
shall be included all expenses of transportation, per diem allowance in 
lieu of subsistence, and all other expenses incurred by reason of such 
supervision from the time the Customs officer leaves his official 
station until he returns thereto.

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    (d) Services rendered for more than one importer. If the 
importations of more than one importer are concurrently supervised, the 
service rendered for each importer shall be regarded as a separate 
assignment, but the total amount of the compensation, and any expenses 
properly applicable to more than one importer, shall be equitably 
apportioned among the importers concerned.

[T.D. 72-262, 37 FR 20318, Sept. 29, 1972, as amended by T.D. 94-74, 59 
FR 46757, Sept. 12, 1994]

                        PARTS 135-140 [RESERVED]