[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 19, Volume 1]

[Revised as of April 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 19CFR12.62]



[Page 284-285]

 

                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES

 

   CHAPTER I--BUREAU OF CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION, DEPARTMENT OF 

              HOMELAND SECURITY; 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



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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]