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19 U.S.C. § 69 — Erection of protective gates and fences across and around roads crossing borders

submitted 96 years ago by ch. 617 to r/title-19-CUSTOMS-DUTIES · 72 words · no verdicts yet

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The Treasury Secretary can spend customs funds to build gates across international roads at the Canadian and Mexican borders, and fences near those roads, to stop unlawful entry and smuggling.

This section authorizes border infrastructure spending. The Secretary of the Treasury can spend money from the funds appropriated for the general maintenance and operation of the Customs Service. That money can go toward erecting protective gates across international highways and roads crossing the Canadian and Mexican borders, and toward erecting fences near those highways and roads, whenever necessary to prevent unlawful entry or smuggling.
the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to expend, from the funds appropriated for the general maintenance and operation of the Customs Service, such amounts as may be necessary for the erection of protective gates across international highways and roads crossing the Canadian and Mexican borders and for the erection of such fences in the immediate vicinity of such highways and roads as may be necessary to prevent unlawful entry or smuggling.

Source credit: (June 26, 1930, ch. 617, § 2, as added Oct. 10, 1940, ch. 837, 54 Stat. 1092.)

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  • 1930Enacted · Act of June 26, 1930, ch. 617 · 54 Stat. 1092

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

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