[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: 19CFR4.31]

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                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
  CHAPTER I--UNITED STATES CUSTOMS SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
 
PART 4--VESSELS IN FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC TRADES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 4.31  Unlading or transshipment due to casualty.

    (a) When any cargo or stores of a vessel have been unladen or 
transshipped at any place in the United States or its Customs waters 
other than a port of entry because of accident, stress of weather, or 
other necessity, no penalty shall be imposed under section 453 or 
586(a), Tariff Act of 1930, if due notice is given to the director of 
the port at which the vessel thereafter first arrives and satisfactory 
proof is submitted to him as provided for in section 586(f), Tariff Act 
of 1930, as amended, regarding such accident, stress of weather, or 
other necessity. The port director may accept the certificates of the 
master and two or more officers or members of the crew of the vessel, of 
whom the person next to the master in command shall be one, as proof 
that the unlading or transshipment was necessary by reason of 
unavoidable cause.
    (b) The port director may then permit entry of the vessel and its 
cargo and permit the unlading of the cargo in such place at the port as 
he may deem proper. Unless its transportation has been in violation of 
the coastwise laws, the cargo may be cleared through Customs at the port 
where it is discharged or forwarded to the port of original

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destination under an entry for immediate transportation or for 
transportation and exportation, as the case may be. All regulations 
shall apply in such cases as if the unlading and delivery took place at 
the port of original destination.

[28 FR 14596, Dec. 31, 1963, as amended by T.D. 95-77, 60 FR 50010, 
Sept. 27, 1995]