Federal · Title 31 — Money and Finance

31 U.S.C. § 5316: Reports on exporting and importing monetary instruments

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from a place in the United States to or through a place outside the United States; or to a place in the United States from or through a place outside the United States; or receives monetary instruments of more than $10,000 at one time transported into the United States from or through a place outside the United States. the legal capacity in which the person filing the report is acting. the origin, destination, and route of the monetary instruments. when the monetary instruments are not legally and beneficially owned by the person transporting the instruments, or if the person transporting the instruments personally is not going to use them, the identity of the person that gave the instruments to the person transporting them, the identity of the person who is to receive them, or both. the amount and kind of monetary instruments transported. additional information. This section or a regulation under this section does not apply to a common carrier of passengers when a passenger possesses a monetary instrument, or to a common carrier of goods if the shipper does not declare the instrument. The Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe regulations under this section defining the term “at one time” for purposes of subsection (a). Such regulations may permit the cumulation of closely related events in order that such events may collectively be considered to occur at one time for the purposes of subsection (a).

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