                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
                      CHAPTER 4--TARIFF ACT OF 1930
 
                 SUBTITLE III--ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
 
      Part II--Report, Entry, and Unlading of Vessels and Vehicles
 
Sec. 1462. Forfeiture

    If such owner, agent, or other person shall fail to comply with his 
demand, the officer shall retain such trunk, traveling bag, sack, 
valise, or other container or closed vehicle, and open the same, and, as 
soon thereafter as may be practicable, examine the contents, and if any 
article subject to duty or any article the importation of which is 
prohibited is found therein, the whole contents and the container or 
vehicle shall be subject to forfeiture.

(June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title IV, Sec. 462, 46 Stat. 718.)


                            Prior Provisions

    Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in R.S. 
Sec. 3101, which was superseded by act Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 356, title 
IV, Sec. 462, 42 Stat. 956, and was repealed by section 642 thereof. 
Section 462 of the 1922 act was superseded by section 462 of act June 
17, 1930, comprising this section, and repealed by section 651(a)(1) of 
the 1930 act.
