19 U.S.C. § 1461
Inspection of merchandise and baggage 11 See Codification note below.
All merchandise and baggage imported or brought in from any contiguous country, except as otherwise provided by law or by regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury, shall be unladen in the presence of and be inspected by a customs officer at the first port of entry at which the same shall arrive; and such officer may require the owner, or his agent, or other person having charge or possession of any trunk, traveling bag, sack, valise, or other container, or of any closed vehicle, to open the same for inspection, or to furnish a key or other means for opening the same.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 26
cases, 1943–2019 · leading case: United States v. Eugene John Davis, 597 F.2d 1237 (9th Cir. 1979).
United States v. Eugene John Davis, 597 F.2d 1237 (9th Cir. 1979). “By this language the trial court plainly informed the jury that it should not convict Davis unless it found he not only failed to declare the statuary, as required by 19 U.S.C. § 1461 , but that he also must have intended to omit that duty, a duty that is lawfully imposed.”
United States v. Charles Kent Spetz, United States of Am. v. Vincent Anthony Gulino, United States of Am. v. Max Andrew Kalik, 721 F.2d 1457 (9th Cir. 1983). “, 19 U.S.C. §§ 1461 , 1467, 1582 (1976); 19 C.”
United States v. Vapsi Akiram Salas-Camacho, 859 F.2d 788 (9th Cir. 1988). “2d 286 (1971); see also 19 U.S.C. § 1461 (1982). Courts have required, moreover, that an importer take the first opportunity to declare the goods in their possession.”
United States v. Phillip Andrew Scott, 425 F.2d 55 (9th Cir. 1970). “Those existing laws include the Marihuana Tax Act, the Customs Inspection statutes, 19 U.S.C. §§ 1461 and 1462, and the provisions of section 176a itself relating to smuggling or clandestinely introducing marihuana.”
United States v. Walter Augustus Bowe, Robert Steele Collier, & Khaleel Sultarn Sayyed, 360 F.2d 1 (2d Cir. 1966). “The citations supplied were 19 U.S.C. § 1461 (unloading and inspection required at first port of entry); 19 U.”
United States v. Paul David Sutton, Jr., 446 F.2d 916 (9th Cir. 1971). “3 Finally, 19 U.S.C. § 1461 requires all merchandise imported from any contiguous country to be unladen and inspected by a customs officer at the first port of entry.”
United States v. Philip Mirenda, United States of Am. v. Jose M. Verdugo-Medina, United States of Am. v. Ramon Fragoso-Herrera, 443 F.2d 1351 (9th Cir. 1971). “The inspection was required by 19 U.S.C. § 1461 ; 1 the concealment and sale allegedly violated 21 U.”
Clifford L. Duke, Jr., Louis Glenn Ballard & Vic Buono v. United States, 255 F.2d 721 (9th Cir. 1958). “2d 538 . As to the latter counts, the indictment there contained the statement that the importation was contrary to 19 U.”
Thomas Nicholas Olar, Jr., & Antoney Geanti v. United States, 391 F.2d 773 (9th Cir. 1968). “, which condemns bringing merchandise into the United States, “knowing the same to have been * * * brought into the United States contrary to law,” without also reading or instructing as to the provisions of the statute, here 19 U.S.C. § 1461 , which is the law alleged to have…”
Juan Nepomuceno Olais-Castro v. United States, 416 F.2d 1155 (9th Cir. 1969). “Therefore, a violation of section 545 based on failure to unload and declare is not a lesser offense within the section 174 crime charged since the indictment for the greater did not contain sufficient warning as to the elements of the lesser.”
United States v. JosÉ Amado-nÚÑez, 357 F.3d 119 (1st Cir. 2004). “, 19 U.S.C. §§ 1461 , 1496, 1582 (2000); 19 C.”
United States v. Kushner, 135 F.2d 668 (2d Cir. 1943). “It seems clear, however, that the statutes, 19 U.S.C.A. §§ 1461 , 1484, which require the inspection and invoicing of all “merchandise” brought into the country include duty-free gold bullion.”
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