[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 19, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2002]
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[CITE: 19CFR4.6]

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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. 4.6  Departure or unlading before report or entry.

    (a) No vessel which has arrived within the limits of any Customs 
port from a foreign port or place shall depart or attempt to depart, 
except from stress of weather or other necessity, without reporting and 
making entry as required in this part. These requirements shall not 
apply to vessels merely passing through waters within the limits of a 
Customs port in the ordinary course of a voyage.
    (b) The ``limits of any Customs port'' as used herein are those 
described in Sec. 101.3(b) of this chapter, including the marginal 
waters to the 3-mile limit on the seaboard and the waters to the 
boundary line on the northern and southern boundaries.
    (c) Violation of this provision may result in the master being 
liable for certain civil penalties and the vessel to arrest and 
forfeiture, as provided under

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19 U.S.C. 1436, in addition to other penalties applicable under other 
provisions of law.

[T.D. 93-96, 58 FR 67316, Dec. 21, 1993, as amended by T.D. 98-74, 63 FR 
51287, Sept. 25, 1998]