                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
                      CHAPTER 4--TARIFF ACT OF 1930
 
                 SUBTITLE III--ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
 
                     Part V--Enforcement Provisions
 
Sec. 1582. Search of persons and baggage; regulations

    The Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe regulations for the 
search of persons and baggage and he is authorized to employ female 
inspectors for the examination and search of persons of their own sex; 
and all persons coming into the United States from foreign countries 
shall be liable to detention and search by authorized officers or agents 
of the Government under such regulations.

(June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title IV, Sec. 582, 46 Stat. 748.)


                            Prior Provisions

    Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in R.S. 
Sec. 3064, which was superseded by act Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 356, title 
IV, Sec. 582, 42 Stat. 979, and was repealed by section 642 thereof. 
Section 582 of the 1922 act was superseded by section 582 of act June 
17, 1930, comprising this section, and repealed by section 651(a)(1) of 
the 1930 act.
