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REPUBLIC ACTS
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 1788 - AN ACT
AMENDING SECTION TWELVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-THREE, ARTICLE VI, CHAPTER
THIRTY-NINE OF ACT NUMBERED TWENTY-SEVEN HUNDRED AND ELEVEN, OTHERWISE
KNOWN AS THE REVISED ADMINISTRATIVE CODE |
(RE: CONTROL OF CUSTOMS OFFICER
OVER BOARDING OR LEAVING OF INCOMING VESSEL) Section 1. Section twelve hundred and twenty-three, Article VI, Chapter thirty-nine of Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and eleven, otherwise known as the Revised Administrative Code, is hereby amended to read as follows: "Section 1223.
Control of customs officer over boarding or leaving of incoming vessel
and over other vessels approaching the former. � Upon the arrival in
port of any vessel engaged in foreign trade, it shall be unlawful for
any person (except the pilot, consul, health officers, or customs
officers) to board or leave the vessel without the permission of the
customs officer in charge; and it shall likewise be unlawful for any
tugboat, rowboat, or other craft to go along side and take any person
aboard such vessel or take any person therefrom, except as aforesaid,
or loiter near or along side such vessel without first securing permit
from the Collector of Customs. Unauthorized tugboats, rowboats, and
similar vessels shall keep away from such vessel engaged in foreign
trade at a distance of not less than fifty meters."
Sec. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval. Approved: June 21, 1957 |
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