11If such owner, agent, or other person shall fail to comply with his demand, the officer shall retain such trunk, traveling bag, sack, valise, or other container or closed vehicle, and open the same, and, as soon thereafter as may be practicable, examine the contents, and if any article subject to duty or any article the importation of which is prohibited is found therein, the whole contents and the container or vehicle shall be subject to forfeiture.
June 17, 1930, ch. 49746 Stat. 718(, title IV, § 462, .)
Editorial Notes
Codification
section 1459 of this titlesection 1459 of this titlePub. L. 99–570section 1461 of this titleAs enacted by act , the catchline for this section was “Same—forfeiture”, as this section was intended to be read as a continuation of the provisions introduced in . When first enacted, related to arrival in the United States from a contiguous country but has since been amended by to relate to arrival more generally. The uses of “such” and “the officer” in text are meant to refer back to .
Prior Provisions
act Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 356, title IV, § 46242 Stat. 956Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in R.S. § 3101, which was superseded by , , and was repealed by section 642 thereof. Section 462 of the 1922 act was superseded by section 462 of act , comprising this section, and repealed by section 651(a)(1) of the 1930 act.