§ 3. — Superintendence of collection of import duties.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 19USC3]
TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
CHAPTER 1--COLLECTION DISTRICTS, PORTS, AND OFFICERS
Sec. 3. Superintendence of collection of import duties
The Secretary of the Treasury shall direct the superintendence of
the collection of the duties on imports as he shall judge best.
(R.S. Sec. 249.)
Codification
R.S. Sec. 249 derived from act May 8, 1792, ch. 37, Sec. 6, 1 Stat.
280.
Section, prior to its incorporation into the Code, contained the
words ``and tonnage,'' after ``duties on imports''. These words were
omitted as superseded by section 3 of Title 46, Appendix, Shipping,
which charged the Chief of the Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat
Inspection with the execution of the laws relating to the collection of
the tonnage tax.
Analysis Regarding CES Program; Effect on Implementation of Program
Pub. L. 100-203, title IX, Sec. 9501(c), Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat.
1330-380, as amended by Pub. L. 103-182, title VI, Sec. 691(b)(1), Dec.
8, 1993, 107 Stat. 2224, provided that:
``(1) The Comptroller General of the United States shall conduct a
comprehensive analysis, including a cost-benefit study, of the
centralized cargo examination station (CES) concept from the perspective
of both the United States Customs Service and business community users.
The analysis shall be submitted on the same day to the Committee on Ways
and Means of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Finance
of the Senate (hereinafter in this subsection referred to as the
`Committees') not later than March 30, 1988, and shall include
recommendations as to how best to implement cargo inspection procedures.
``(2) The United States Customs Service--
``(A) may not, after the date of the enactment of this Act [Dec.
22, 1987], establish any new centralized cargo examination station
at any ocean port, airport, or land border location unless the
Customs Service provides to the Committees advance notice, in
writing, of not less than 90 days regarding the proposed
establishment; and
``(B) shall, on such date of enactment, suspend operations at
each centralized cargo examination station that was operating at an
airport on the day before such date until the 90th day after a
date--
``(i) that is not earlier than the date on which the
analysis required under paragraph (1) is submitted to the
Committees, and
``(ii) on which the Customs Service provides to the
Committees notice, in writing, that it intends to resume such
operations at the station.
During the period of suspension of operations under subparagraph (B) at
any centralized cargo examination station at an airport, the Secretary
of the Treasury shall maintain customs operations and staffing at that
airport at a level not less than that which was in effect immediately
before the suspension took effect.
``(3) The Commissioner of Customs is authorized to obtain from the
operators of centralized cargo examination stations information
regarding the fees paid to them for the provision of services at these
stations.''
[For transfer of functions, personnel, assets, and liabilities of
the United States Customs Service of the Department of the Treasury,
including functions of the Secretary of the Treasury relating thereto,
to the Secretary of Homeland Security, and for treatment of related
references, see sections 203(1), 551(d), 552(d), and 557 of Title 6,
Domestic Security, and the Department of Homeland Security
Reorganization Plan of November 25, 2002, as modified, set out as a note
under section 542 of Title 6.]
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in title 6 section 212.
