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[CITE: 15USC1177]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
             CHAPTER 24--TRANSPORTATION OF GAMBLING DEVICES
 
Sec. 1177. Confiscation of gambling devices and means of 
        transportation; laws governing
        
    Any gambling device transported, delivered, shipped, manufactured, 
reconditioned, repaired, sold, disposed of, received, possessed, or used 
in violation of the provisions of this chapter shall be seized and 
forfeited to the United States. All provisions of law relating to the 
seizure, summary and judicial forfeiture, and condemnation of vessels, 
vehicles, merchandise, and baggage for violation of the customs laws; 
the disposition of such vessels, vehicles, merchandise, and baggage or 
the proceeds from the sale thereof; the remission or mitigation of such 
forfeitures; and the compromise of claims and the award of compensation 
to informers in respect of such forfeitures shall apply to seizures and 
forfeitures incurred, or alleged to have been incurred, under the 
provisions of this chapter, insofar as applicable and not inconsistent 
with the provisions hereof: Provided, That such duties as are imposed 
upon the collector of customs or any other person with respect to the 
seizure and forfeiture of vessels, vehicles, merchandise, and baggage 
under the customs laws shall be performed with respect to seizures and 
forfeitures of gambling devices under this chapter by such officers, 
agents, or other persons as may be authorized or designated for that 
purpose by the Attorney General.

(Jan. 2, 1951, ch. 1194, Sec. 7, 64 Stat. 1135.)

                          Transfer of Functions

    Offices of collector of customs, comptroller of customs, surveyor of 
customs, and appraiser of merchandise in Bureau of Customs of Department 
of the Treasury to which appointments were required to be made by 
President with advice and consent of Senate ordered abolished with such 
offices to be terminated not later than Dec. 31, 1966, by Reorg. Plan 
No. 1 of 1965, eff. May 25, 1965, 30 F.R. 7035, 79 Stat. 1317, set out 
in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. 
Functions of offices eliminated were already vested in Secretary of the 
Treasury by Reorg. Plan No. 26 of 1950, eff. July 31, 1950, 15 F.R. 
4935, 64 Stat. 1280, set out in the Appendix to Title 5.
