[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 19, Volume 2]
[Revised as of April 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 19CFR162.4]

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                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
  CHAPTER I--UNITED STATES CUSTOMS SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
 
PART 162--INSPECTION, SEARCH, AND SEIZURE--Table of Contents
 
             Subpart A--Inspection, Examination, and Search
 
Sec. 162.4  Search for letters.

    A Customs officer may search vessels for letters which may be on 
board or may have been conveyed contrary to law on board any vessel or 
on any post route, and shall seize such letters and deliver them to the 
nearest post office or detain them subject to the orders of the postal 
authorities.

[T.D. 72-211, 37 FR 16488, Aug. 15, 1972]