[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 19, Volume 2]

[Revised as of April 1, 2006]

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

[CITE: 19CFR141.32]



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                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES

 

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

        HOMELAND SECURITY; DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY (CONTINUED)

 

PART 141_ENTRY OF MERCHANDISE--Table of Contents

 

                      Subpart C_Powers of Attorney

 

Sec.  141.32  Form for power of attorney.



    Customs Form 5291 may be used for giving power of attorney to 

transact Customs business. If a Customs power of attorney is not on a 

Customs Form 5291, it shall be either a general power of attorney with 

unlimited authority or a limited power of attorney as explicit in its 

terms and executed in the same manner as a Customs Form 5291. The 

following is an example of an acceptable general power of attorney with 

unlimited authority:



                  KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, THAT



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 (Name of principal)

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(State legal designation, such as corporation, individual, etc.) 

residing at ------------------------------ and doing business under the 

laws of the State of ------------, hereby appoints______________________

________________________________________________________________________

    (Name, legal designation, and address)

as a true and lawful agent and attorney of the principal named above 

with full power and authority to do and perform every lawful act and 

thing the said agent and attorney may deem requisite and necessary to be 

done for and on behalf of the said principal without limitation of any 

kind as fully as said principal could do if present and acting, and 

hereby ratify and confirm all that said agent and attorney shall 

lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of these presents until and 

including ------------, (date) or until notice of revocation in writing 

is duly given before that date.

    Date --------------------, 19----;.

________________________________________________________________________

                                                 (Principal's signature)