                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
              CHAPTER 3--THE TARIFF AND RELATED PROVISIONS
 
                   SUBTITLE IV--CUSTOMS ADMINISTRATION
 
                        Administrative Provisions
 
                     part 5--enforcement provisions
 
Sec. 528. Appropriate customs officer to receive amount 
        recovered
        
    The appropriate customs officer within whose district any seizure 
shall be made or forfeiture incurred for any violation of the duty laws 
is authorized to receive from the court within which trial is had, or 
from the proper officer thereof, the sum recovered, after deducting all 
proper charges to be allowed by the court; and on receipt thereof he 
shall pay and distribute the same without delay, according to law.

(R.S. Sec. 3087; June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title IV, Sec. 604, 46 Stat. 
754; Pub. L. 91-271, title III, Sec. 319, June 2, 1970, 84 Stat. 293.)

                          Codification

    This section was derived from R.S. Sec. 3087, which, however, 
contained a further provision requiring collectors to cause suits to be 
commenced without delay and prosecuted to effect. That provision was 
omitted as inconsistent with section 604 of act Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 356, 
42 Stat. 984, constituting former section 511 of this title. Act Sept. 
21, 1922, was repealed by act June 17, 1930, but section 604 of the 
latter Act, constituting section 1604 of this title, reenacted section 
604 of the former Act.


                               Amendments

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


                    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.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Functions of all 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 those 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. Customs officers, referred to in this 
section, are under Department of the Treasury.
