                        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. 1467. Special inspection, examination, and search

    Whenever a vessel from a foreign port or place or from a port or 
place in any Territory or possession of the United States arrives at a 
port or place in the United States or the Virgin Islands, whether 
directly or via another port or place in the United States or the Virgin 
Islands, the appropriate customs officer for such port or place of 
arrival may, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may 
prescribe and for the purpose of assuring compliance with any law, 
regulation, or instruction which the Secretary of the Treasury or the 
Customs Service is authorized to enforce, cause inspection, examination, 
and search to be made of the persons, baggage, and merchandise 
discharged or unladen from such vessel, whether or not any or all such 
persons, baggage, or merchandise has previously been inspected, 
examined, or searched by officers of the customs.

(June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title IV, Sec. 467, as added June 25, 1938, ch. 
679, Sec. 11, 52 Stat. 1083; amended Pub. L. 91-271, title III, 
Sec. 301(g), June 2, 1970, 84 Stat. 288.)


                               Amendments

    1970--Pub. L. 91-271 substituted reference to appropriate customs 
officer for reference to collector of customs.


                    Effective Date of 1970 Amendment

    For effective date of amendment by Pub. L. 91-271, see section 203 
of Pub. L. 91-271, set out as a note under section 1500 of this title.


                             Effective Date

    This section effective on the thirtieth day following June 25, 1938, 
except as otherwise specifically provided, see section 37 of act June 
25, 1938, set out as an Effective Date of 1938 Amendment note under 
section 1401 of this title.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Functions of all other officers of Department of the Treasury and 
functions of all agencies and employees of such Department transferred, 
with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Treasury, with power vested 
in him to authorize their performance or performance of any of his 
functions, by any of such officers, agencies, and employees, by Reorg. 
Plan No. 26 of 1950, Secs. 1, 2, eff. July 31, 1950, 15 F.R. 4935, 64 
Stat. 1280, 1281, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government 
Organization and Employees.
