                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
                      CHAPTER 4--TARIFF ACT OF 1930
 
                 SUBTITLE III--ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
 
     Part IV--Transportation in Bond and Warehousing of Merchandise
 
Sec. 1560. Leasing of warehouses

    The Secretary of the Treasury may cause to be set aside any 
available space in a building used as a customhouse for the storage of 
bonded merchandise or may lease premises for the storage of unclaimed 
merchandise or other imported merchandise required to be stored by the 
Government, and set aside a portion of such leased premises for the 
storage of bonded merchandise: Provided, That no part of any premises 
owned or leased by the Government may be used for the storage of bonded 
merchandise at any port at which a public bonded warehouse has been 
established and is in operation. All the premises so leased shall be 
leased on public account and the storage and other charges shall be 
deposited and accounted for as customs receipts, and the rates therefor 
shall not be less than the charges for storage and similar services made 
at such port of entry by commercial concerns for the storage and 
handling of merchandise. No officer of the customs shall own, in whole 
or in part, any bonded warehouse or enter into any contract or agreement 
for the lease or use of any building to be thereafter erected as a 
public store or warehouse. No lease of any building to be so used shall 
be taken for a longer period than three years, nor shall rent for any 
such premises be paid, in whole or in part, in advance.

(June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title IV, Sec. 560, 46 Stat. 745; Pub. L. 91-
271, title III, Sec. 301(u), June 2, 1970, 84 Stat. 290.)


                            Prior Provisions

    Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in act 
Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 356, title IV, Sec. 560, 42 Stat. 977. That section 
was superseded by section 560 of act June 17, 1930, comprising this 
section, and repealed by section 651(a)(1) of the 1930 act.
    Prior provisions on the subject matter of this section were 
contained in R.S. Sec.  2953, providing that nothing therein contained 
should be construed to prevent the leasing or hiring of buildings for 
use of appraisers, or for short periods, of stores required for 
customhouse purposes at the smaller ports; section 2954, authorizing the 
leasing of warehouses for storage of unclaimed goods or goods required 
to be stored; section 2955, prohibiting the leasing of warehouses at 
ports at which there was any private bonded warehouse, but excepting 
buildings for use of appraisers, etc.; section 2956, providing that 
warehouses hired should be on public account, and be appropriated 
exclusively to receipt of foreign merchandise, subject, as to rates of 
storage, to regulation by the Secretary of the Treasury; and section 
2957, prohibiting leases for more than three years, or the payment of 
rent in advance. All of these sections were repealed by act Sept. 21, 
1922, ch. 356, title IV, Sec. 642, 42 Stat. 989.
    A prior provision that no officer of the customs should have any 
personal ownership of, or interest in, any bonded warehouse or general 
order store, was contained in act June 22, 1874, ch. 391, Sec.  24, 18 
Stat. 191; and a provision prohibiting agreements for the use of any 
building to be erected was contained in R.S. Sec. 2957. Both of these 
sections were repealed by act Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 356, title IV, 
Secs. 642, 643, 42 Stat. 989.


                               Amendments

    1970--Pub. L. 91-271 substituted ``officer of the customs'' for 
``collector or other officer of the 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.
