Federal · Title 19 — Customs Duties

19 U.S.C. § 69: Erection of protective gates and fences across and around roads crossing borders

Civil

What this law says, in plain English

The Treasury Secretary may spend Customs Service funds to build protective gates and fences at roads crossing U.S. borders with Canada and Mexico to prevent unlawful entry and smuggling.

Read the full statutory text

The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to expend, from the funds appropriated for the general maintenance and operation of the Customs Service, such amounts as may be necessary for the erection of protective gates across international highways and roads crossing the Canadian and Mexican borders and for the erection of such fences in the immediate vicinity of such highways and roads as may be necessary to prevent unlawful entry or smuggling.

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