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19 U.S.C. § 68Enforcement of customs and immigration laws in Guam and the Virgin Islands and along Canadian and Mexican borders; cooperation by Secretary of the Treasury and Attorney General; erection of buildings

submitted 96 years ago by ch. 617 to r/title-19-CUSTOMS-DUTIES · 192 words · no verdicts yet

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The Treasury Secretary and Attorney General can spend customs and immigration funds to build gates, offices, and living quarters along the Canadian and Mexican borders, and in Guam and the Virgin Islands, to help enforce customs and immigration laws. Each project is capped at $200,000, including the land.

This section funds physical infrastructure for border enforcement. Its goal is to help enforce customs and immigration laws along the Canadian and Mexican borders, and to provide better enforcement facilities at border points that lack suitable federal buildings — and for similar purposes in the Virgin Islands and Guam. To do this, the Secretary of the Treasury and the Attorney General (for the borders and the Virgin Islands), and the Attorney General alone (for Guam), are authorized to spend money from the funds appropriated for the general maintenance and operation of the Customs Service and the Immigration and Naturalization Service. That money can go toward acquiring land and building buildings, sheds, and office quarters — including living quarters for officers where none are otherwise available. There's a proviso limiting the spending: the total amount spent on any one project, including the site, can't exceed $200,000. If a project serves both the Customs Service and the Immigration and Naturalization Service jointly, the combined cost — including the site — is split between the two agencies' appropriations.
the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

To aid in the enforcement of the customs and immigration laws along the Canadian and Mexican borders and to provide better facilities for such enforcement at points along such borders at which no Federal or other buildings adapted or suitably located for the purpose are available, and for similar purposes in the Virgin Islands of the United States, the Secretary of the Treasury and the Attorney General are hereby authorized to expend, and for similar purposes in Guam the Attorney General is hereby authorized to expend, from the funds appropriated for the general maintenance and operation of the Customs and the Immigration and Naturalization Services, respectively, the necessary amounts for the acquisition of land and the erection of buildings, sheds, and office quarters, including living quarters for officers where none are otherwise available: Provided, That the total amount which may be so expended for any one project, including the site, shall not exceed $200,000 and that where the project is for the joint use of the Customs Service and the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the combined cost of the project, including the site, shall be charged to the two appropriations concerned.

Source credit: (June 26, 1930, ch. 617, § 1, 46 Stat. 817; Oct. 10, 1940, ch. 837, 54 Stat. 1091; Sept. 26, 1951, ch. 414, 65 Stat. 336; May 18, 1956, ch. 282, 70 Stat. 159; Pub. L. 86–466, May 13, 1960, 74 Stat. 130; Pub. L. 87–465, May 31, 1962, 76 Stat. 87; Pub. L. 89–87, July 24, 1965, 79 Stat. 264; Pub. L. 93–396, Aug. 29, 1974, 88 Stat. 794.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit
  • 1930Enacted · Act of June 26, 1930, ch. 617 · 46 Stat. 817
  • 1940Amended · Act of Oct. 10, 1940, ch. 837 · 54 Stat. 1091
  • 1951Amended · Act of Sept. 26, 1951, ch. 414 · 65 Stat. 336
  • 1956Amended · Act of May 18, 1956, ch. 282 · 70 Stat. 159
  • 1960Amended · Pub. L. 86-466 · 74 Stat. 130
  • 1962Amended · Pub. L. 87-465 · 76 Stat. 87
  • 1965Amended · Pub. L. 89-87 · 79 Stat. 264
  • 1974Amended · Pub. L. 93-396 · 88 Stat. 794

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 617 on 1930-06-26.

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