48 U.S.C. § 1494b — Enforcement and administration in insular areas
submitted 40 years ago by Pub. L. 99-570 to r/title-48-TERRITORIES-AND-INSULAR-POSSESSIONS · 1,507 words · no verdicts yet
This section provides drug-law enforcement authority, training, equipment, grants, and federal personnel arrangements for American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Palau.
(a) American Samoa.
(1) With Attorney General approval, American Samoa law-enforcement officers may execute and serve United States warrants, subpoenas, and summonses; make warrantless arrests; and seize property to enforce sections 1494–1494c, the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act, and other applicable United States narcotics laws.
(2) The Attorney General and, as appropriate, the Education and Health and Human Services Secretaries may, and on American Samoa’s request must, train its officers and personnel and purchase or lease equipment and provide technical help for these federal or territorial drug and substance-abuse laws.
(3) Congress may appropriate $350,000 for fiscal year 1989 and each later year for grants under an Interior-approved plan, developed with the listed officials. The money remains available until spent.
(4) Treasury, consulting Interior, must provide American Samoa a vessel for narcotics and other law enforcement. Congress may appropriate $500,000 for it.
(b) Guam.
(1) The Attorney General and Education and Health and Human Services Secretaries may, and on Guam’s request must, provide training, technical assistance, and equipment for the listed federal or territorial drug and substance-abuse laws.
(2) Congress may appropriate $500,000 for fiscal year 1989 and each later year for grants under an Interior-approved consultation plan, available until spent.
(3) Congress may appropriate $500,000 to Guam for drug-law-enforcement equipment under an Interior-approved plan developed with the Attorney General.
(c) Northern Mariana Islands.
(1) With Attorney General approval, its officers may serve federal warrants, subpoenas, and summonses; make warrantless arrests; and seize property for the listed laws.
(2) The listed federal officials may, and on its request must, train its personnel and provide equipment and technical help for the listed federal or commonwealth laws.
(3) Congress may appropriate $125,000 for fiscal year 1989 and each later year for grants under the required consultation plan, available until spent.
(4) Federal personnel and equipment assigned to Guam under (b) may also serve the Northern Mariana Islands.
(d) Puerto Rico.
(1) Congress may appropriate $7,000,000 for fiscal year 1989 and $2,000,000 each later year for grants under the specified White House Task Force plan, available until spent.
(2) Customs should station an aerostat in Puerto Rico.
(3) Puerto Rico must make equipment provided under (1) available on request to federal drug-interdiction agencies.
(4) The listed officials may, and on Puerto Rico’s request must, provide training, technical help, and equipment. Congress may appropriate amounts needed for this, available until spent.
(e) Virgin Islands.
(1) Congress may appropriate $2,000,000 for fiscal year 1990 and each later year for grants under the required plan, available until spent.
(2) The Coast Guard must station a patrol vessel in St. Croix.
(3) The listed officials may, and on the Virgin Islands’ request must, provide training, technical help, and equipment. Congress may appropriate amounts needed, available until spent.
(4) The Attorney General must assign needed personnel to the United States Attorney’s office for the Virgin Islands to help prosecute United States narcotics-law violations.
(5) Beginning in fiscal year 1989, Congress may appropriate $2,500,000 for a substance-abuse facility under the required Interior and Health and Human Services plan.
(f) Palau.
(1) The listed officials may, and on Palau’s request must, provide training, technical assistance, and equipment for the listed federal or insular laws.
(2) Congress may appropriate $500,000 for fiscal year 1989 and each later year for grants under a plan approved by the Secretary of the Interior in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretaries of Education, State, and Health and Human Services. The grants must be used for the purposes of sections 1494–1494c.
(3) Unless Palau’s Constitution forbids it, on Palau’s President’s written request DEA, FBI, Secret Service, Immigration and Naturalization Service, and Customs may investigate United States criminal laws applicable in Palau with Palau law enforcement.
With the approval of the Attorney General of the United States or his designee, law enforcement officers of the Government of American Samoa are authorized to—
execute and serve warrants, subpoenas, and summons issued under the authority of the United States;
make arrests without warrant; and
make seizures of property to carry out the purposes of sections 1494 to 1494c of this title, the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act (21 U.S.C. 951–970), and any other applicable narcotics laws of the United States.
The Attorney General and the Secretaries of Education and Health and Human Services of the United States, as appropriate, are authorized to and, upon request of the Government of American Samoa, shall—
train law enforcement officers and other personnel of the Government of American Samoa, and
provide by purchase or lease law enforcement equipment and technical assistance to the Government of American Samoa to carry out the purposes of sections 1494 to 1494c of this title and any other Federal or territorial drug or other substance abuse laws.
There are authorized to be appropriated $350,000 for fiscal year 1989 and annually thereafter for grants to the Government of American Samoa to be expended in accordance with a plan approved by the Secretary of the Interior in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretaries of Education and Health and Human Services to carry out the purposes of sections 1494 to 1494c of this title, to remain available until expended.
The Secretary of the Treasury in consultation with the Secretary of the Interior shall provide the Government of American Samoa with a vessel to be used in the enforcement of narcotics and other laws. There are authorized to be appropriated $500,000 for this purpose.
The Attorney General and the Secretaries of Education and Health and Human Services of the United States may provide and, upon request of the Government of Guam, shall provide appropriate training, technical assistance and equipment to the Government of Guam to carry out the purposes of sections 1494 to 1494c of this title and any other Federal or territorial drug or other substance abuse law.
There are authorized to be appropriated $500,000 for fiscal year 1989 and annually thereafter for grants to the Government of Guam to be expended in accordance with a plan approved by the Secretary of the Interior in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretaries of Education and Health and Human Services, to carry out the purposes of sections 1494 to 1494c of this title, to remain available until expended.
There are authorized to be appropriated to the Government of Guam $500,000 for grants to be expended in accordance with a plan approved by the Secretary of the Interior in consultation with the Attorney General for drug abuse law enforcement equipment.
With the approval of the Attorney General of the United States or his designee, law enforcement officers of the Government of the Northern Mariana Islands are authorized to—
execute and serve warrants, subpoenas, and summons issued under the authority of the United States;
make arrests without warrant; and
make seizures of property to carry out the purposes of sections 1494 to 1494c of this title, the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act (21 U.S.C. 951–970), and any other applicable narcotics laws of the United States.
The Attorney General and the Secretaries of Education and Health and Human Services of the United States, as appropriate, are authorized to and, upon request of the Government of the Northern Mariana Islands, shall—
train law enforcement officers and other personnel of the Government of the Northern Mariana Islands, and
provide, by purchase or lease, law enforcement equipment and technical assistance to the Government of the Northern Mariana Islands to carry out the purposes of sections 1494 to 1494c of this title and any other Federal or commonwealth drug or other substance abuse law.
There are authorized to be appropriated $125,000 for fiscal year 1989 and annually thereafter for grants to the Government of the Northern Mariana Islands to be expended in accordance with a plan approved by the Secretary of the Interior in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretaries of Education and Health and Human Services to carry out the purposes of sections 1494 to 1494c of this title, to remain available until expended.
Federal personnel and equipment assigned to Guam pursuant to subsection (b) of this section shall also be available to carry out the purposes of sections 1494 to 1494c of this title in the Northern Mariana Islands.
There are authorized to be appropriated for grants to the Government of Puerto Rico $7,000,000 for fiscal year 1989 and $2,000,000 annually thereafter for grants to the Government of Puerto Rico to carry out the purposes of sections 1494 to 1494c of this title to be expended in accordance with a plan approved by the Executive Director of the White House Task Force on Puerto Rico in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretaries of Education and Health and Human Services, to remain available until expended.
The United States Customs Service should station an aerostat in Puerto Rico.
Equipment provided to the Government of Puerto Rico pursuant to paragraph (1) of this subsection shall be made available upon request to the Federal agencies involved in drug interdiction in Puerto Rico.
The Attorney General and the Secretaries of Education and Health and Human Services of the United States may provide and, upon request of the Government of Puerto Rico, shall provide appropriate training, technical assistance and equipment to the Government of Puerto Rico to carry out the purposes of sections 1494 to 1494c of this title and any other Federal or commonwealth drug or other substance abuse law.
There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out subparagraph (A). Funds appropriated under this subparagraph shall remain available until expended.
There are authorized to be appropriated for grants to the Government of the Virgin Islands, $2,000,000 for fiscal year 1990 and annually thereafter to carry out the purposes of sections 1494 to 1494c of this title to be expended in accordance with a plan approved by the Secretary of the Interior in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretaries of Education and Health and Human Services, to remain available until expended.
The United States Coast Guard shall station a patrol vessel in St. Croix, Virgin Islands.
The Attorney General and the Secretaries of Education and Health and Human Services of the United States may provide and, upon request of the Government of the Virgin Islands, shall provide appropriate training, technical assistance and equipment to the Government of the United States Virgin Islands to carry out the purposes of sections 1494 to 1494c of this title and any other Federal or territorial drug or other substance abuse law.
There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out subparagraph (A). Funds appropriated under this subparagraph shall remain available until expended.
To assist in the prosecution of the violation of the narcotics laws of the United States, the Attorney General of the United States shall assign the necessary personnel to serve in the office of the United States Attorney for the Virgin Islands appointed pursuant to section 1617 of this title.
Effective fiscal year 1989, there are authorized to be appropriated for a grant to the Government of the Virgin Islands $2,500,000 to be expended in accordance with a plan approved by the Secretary of the Interior in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services for a substance abuse facility.
The Attorney General and the Secretaries of Education and Health and Human Services are authorized to and, upon request of the Government of Palau, shall provide appropriate training, technical assistance, and equipment to carry out the purposes of sections 1494 to 1494c of this title and any other applicable Federal or insular drug or other substance abuse laws.
There are authorized to be appropriated $500,000 for fiscal year 1989 and annually thereafter for grants to the Government of Palau to be expended in accordance with a plan to be approved by the Secretary of the Interior in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretaries of Education, State, and Health and Human Services to carry out the purposes of sections 1494 to 1494c of this title.
To the extent not prohibited under the Constitution of Palau, upon written request of the President of Palau, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Secret Service, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and the Customs Service are authorized to investigate any United States criminal laws which are applicable in Palau in cooperation with law enforcement agencies of Palau.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 99–570, title V, § 5004, Oct. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 3207–155; Pub. L. 100–690, title IX, §§ 9302–9305, 9306(b), 9307, Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4536–4538.)
- 1986Enacted · Pub. L. 99-570 · 100 Stat. 3207
- 1988Amended · Pub. L. 100-690 · 102 Stat. 4536
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