                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
              CHAPTER 3--THE TARIFF AND RELATED PROVISIONS
 
                   SUBTITLE IV--CUSTOMS ADMINISTRATION
 
                        Administrative Provisions
 
      part 4--transportation in bond and warehousing of merchandise
 
Sec. 467. Imported distilled spirits, wines, or malt liquors; 
        regulations for marks, brands, and stamps or devices on bulk 
        containers; forfeitures
        
    The Secretary of the Treasury may by regulation require such marks, 
brands, and stamps or devices to be placed on any bulk container 
(including a pipeline) used for holding, storing, transferring or 
conveying imported distilled spirits, wines, or malt liquors as he deems 
necessary and proper in the administration of the Federal laws 
applicable to such imported distilled spirits, wines, or malt liquors 
and may specify those marks, brands, and stamps or devices which the 
importer or owner shall place or have placed on such containers. Any 
such container of imported distilled spirits, wines, or malt liquors 
withdrawn from customs custody purporting to contain imported distilled 
spirits, wines, or malt liquors found without having thereon any mark, 
brand, stamp, or device the Secretary of the Treasury may require, shall 
be with its contents, forfeited to the United States of America.

(Mar. 1, 1879, ch. 125, Sec. 11, 20 Stat. 342; Pub. L. 95-410, title II, 
Sec. 201, Oct. 3, 1978, 92 Stat. 898.)


                               Amendments

    1978--Pub. L. 95-410 substituted provisions authorizing the 
Secretary of the Treasury to require by regulation the placing of marks, 
brands, and stamps or devices on bulk containers of imported distilled 
spirits, wines, or malt liquors used for holding, storing, transferring 
or conveying the imported liquors for prior provisions for deposit of 
imported distilled spirits, wines, and malt liquors in public store or 
bonded warehouse, inspection of packages, affixing of stamps thereto, 
and special stamps for cask or package of not less than five wine-
gallons filled for shipment, sale, or delivery on premises of any 
wholesale liquor-dealer under rules and regulations prescribed by 
Commissioner of Internal Revenue.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 468 of this title.
