[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 32, Volume 5, Parts 700 to 799]
[Revised as of  July 1, 1998]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 32CFR700.764]

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                       TITLE 32--NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
                   CHAPTER VI--DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY
 
PART 700--UNITED STATES NAVY REGULATIONS--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart G--The Commanding Officer
 
Sec. 700.764  Customs and immigration inspections.

    (a) The commanding officer or aircraft commander shall facilitate 
any proper examination which it may be the duty of a customs officer or 
an immigration officer of the United States to make on board the ship or 
aircraft under his command. He shall not permit a foreign customs 
officer or an immigation officer to make any examination whatsoever, 
except as hereinafter provided, on board the ship, aircraft, or boats 
under his command.
    (b) When a ship or aircraft of the Navy or a public vessel manned by 
naval personnel and operating under the direction of the Department of 
the Navy is carrying cargo for private commercial account, such cargo 
shall be subject to the local customs regulations of the port, domestic 
or foreign, in which the ship or aircraft may be, and in all matters 
relating to such cargo, the procedure prescribed for private merchant 
vessels and aircraft shall be followed. Government-owned stores or cargo 
in such ship or aircraft not landed nor intended to be landed nor in any 
manner trafficked in, are, by the established precedent of international 
courtesy, exempt from customs duties, but a declaration of such stores 
or cargo, when required by local customs regulations, shall be made. 
Commanding officers shall prevent, as far as possible, disputes with the 
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authorities in such cases, but shall protect the ship or aircraft and 
the Government-owned stores and cargo from any search or seizure.
    (c) Upon arrival from a foreign country, at the first port of entry 
in United States territory, the commanding officer, or the senior 
officer of ships or aircraft in company, shall notify the collector of 
the port. Each individual aboard shall, in accordance with customs 
regulations, submit a list of articles purchased or otherwise acquired 
by him abroad. Dutiable articles shall not be landed until the customs 
officer has completed his inspection.
    (d) Commanding officers of naval vessels and aircraft transporting 
United States civilian and foreign military and civilian passengers 
shall satisfy themselves that the passenger clearance requirements of 
the Immigration and Naturalization Service are complied with upon 
arrival at points within the jurisdiction of the United States. 
Clearance for such passengers by an immigration officer is necessary 
upon arrival from foreign ports and at the completion of movements 
between any of the following: Continental United States (including 
Alaska and Hawaii), Canal Zone, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, 
American Samoa, or other outlying places subject to United States 
jurisdiction. Commanding officers prior to arriving shall advise the 
cognizant naval or civilian port authority of the aforementioned 
passengers aboard and shall detain them for clearance as required by the 
Immigration and Naturalization Service.
    (e) The provisions of this article shall not be construed to require 
delaying the movements of any ship or aircraft of the Navy in the 
performance of the assigned duty.