Any officer of the customs service designated by the Secretary of the Treasury for foreign service, shall, through the Department of State, be regularly and officially attached to the diplomatic missions of the United States in the countries in which they are to be stationed, and when such officers are assigned to countries in which there are no diplomatic missions of the United States, appropriate recognition and standing with full facilities for discharging their official duties shall be arranged by the Department of State. The Secretary of State may reject the name of any such officer whose assignment to the foreign post for which he has been designated would, in his judgment, be prejudicial to the public policy of the United States. The appointment of such customs officers shall be made pursuant to the civil service laws and regulations upon the nomination of the principal officer in charge of the office to which such appointments are to be made.
Mar. 4, 1923, ch. 251, § 242 Stat. 1453Jan. 13, 1925, ch. 7643 Stat. 748May 28, 1926, ch. 411, § 144 Stat. 669June 17, 1930, ch. 49746 Stat. 737June 25, 1948, ch. 646, § 3962 Stat. 992Pub. L. 91–271, title III, § 30384 Stat. 292(, ; , ; , ; , title IV, §§ 518, 649, , 762; , ; , , .)
Editorial Notes
Amendments
Pub. L. 91–2711970— struck out provisions authorizing Secretary of the Treasury to appoint, prescribe designations and duties, and fix compensation of deputies and other customs officers, laborers, and other employees.
1948—Act , struck out fourth sentence relating to appointment and compensation of clerks of Customs Court.
1930—Act , § 649, substituted “Treasury attachés” for “Customs attachés”.
Act , § 518, authorized Secretary of the Treasury to appoint and fix compensation of clerks of Customs Court.
1926—Act , substituted “United States Customs Court” for “Board of General Appraisers”.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date of 1970 Amendment
Pub. L. 91–271section 203 of Pub. L. 91–271section 1500 of this titleAmendment by effective with respect to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after , and such other articles entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption prior to such date, or with respect to which a protest has not been disallowed in whole or in part before , see , set out as a note under .
Effective Date of 1948 Amendment
Act June 25, 1948, ch. 646, § 3862 Stat. 992, , provided that the amendment made by that act is effective .
Transfer of Functions
section 542 of Title 6Pub. L. 107–296section 211 of Title 6Pub. L. 114–125section 802(b) of Pub. L. 114–125section 211 of Title 6For 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 , as modified, set out as a note under . For establishment of U.S. Customs and Border Protection in the Department of Homeland Security, treated as if included in as of , see , as amended generally by , and , set out as a note under .
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
79 Stat. 1317section 1 of this titleAll offices of collector of customs, comptroller of customs, surveyor of customs, and appraiser of merchandise in Bureau of Customs of Department of the Treasury to which appointments were required to be made by President with advice and consent of Senate ordered abolished, with such offices to be terminated not later than , by Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1965, eff. , 30 F.R. 7035, , set out as a note under .
64 Stat. 1280Functions 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 such officers, agencies, and employees, by 1950 Reorg. Plan No. 26. §§ 1, 2, eff. , 15 F.R. 4935, , set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.