19 C.F.R. § 162.5
Search of arriving vehicles and aircraft
A customs officer may stop any vehicle and board any aircraft arriving in the United States from a foreign country for the purpose of examining the manifest and other documents and papers and examining, inspecting, and searching the vehicle or aircraft.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 6
cases, 1977–1991 · leading case: United States v. Orlando Franchi-Forlando, 838 F.2d 585 (1st Cir. 1988).
United States v. Orlando Franchi-Forlando, 838 F.2d 585 (1st Cir. 1988). “” We added, in McKenzie , that the relevant customs regulation, 19 C.F.R. § 162.5 (1987) encompasses searches of this sort.”
United States v. John Terrance Garcia, Phillip G. Jackman, 672 F.2d 1349 (11th Cir. 1982). “See also 19 C.F.R. § 162.5 (1981) (regulation embodying language substantially identical to § 1581 but explicitly referring to aircraft).”
United States v. Jaime Uricoechea-Casallas, 946 F.2d 162 (1st Cir. 1991). “In so doing, we stated that 19 C.F.R. § 162.5 “allows searches of aircraft that stop in the United States customs territory only briefly and then travel elsewhere.”
United States v. Ralph McKenzie, 818 F.2d 115 (1st Cir. 1987). “19 C.F.R. § 162.5 (1986). The seriousness and worldwide nature of the traffic in narcotics, which civilized nations have joined forces to stamp out, as well as the increased burden upon those efforts that recognition of some kind of in-transit exception would create, militate…”
Azurin v. United States, 632 F. Supp. 30 (Ct. Intl. Trade 1986). “, 19 C.F.R. §§ 162.5 , 162.6. 9 . On March 6, 1986 the Republic of the Philippines through counsel requested that the United States provide "all documents of any kind whatsoever .”
United States v. Corp, 452 F. Supp. 185 (W.D. Tenn. 1977). “arge, or by, in, or upon such vehicle or beast, or otherwise; and to search any trunk or envelope wherever found, in which he may have a reasonable cause to suspect there is merchandise which was imported contrary to law; and if such officer or other person so authorized shall…”
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