31 U.s.c. 5316

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31 U.S.C. 5316

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TITLE 31--MONEY AND FINANCE

SUBTITLE IV--MONEY

CHAPTER 53--MONETARY TRANSACTIONS

SUBCHAPTER II--RECORDS AND REPORTS ON MONETARY INSTRUMENTS TRANSACTIONS


Sec. 5316. Reports on exporting and importing monetary instruments

(a) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, a person

or an agent or bailee of the person shall file a report under subsection (b) of this section when the person, agent, or bailee knowingly--

(1) transports, is about to transport, or has transported,

monetary instruments of more than $10,000 at one time--

(A) from a place in the United States to or through a place

outside the United States; or

(B) to a place in the United States from or through a place

outside the United States; or

(2) 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.


(b) A report under this section shall be filed at the time and place

the Secretary of the Treasury prescribes. The report shall contain the

following information to the extent the Secretary prescribes:

(1) the legal capacity in which the person filing the report is

acting.

(2) the origin, destination, and route of the monetary

instruments.

(3) 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.

(4) the amount and kind of monetary instruments transported.

(5) additional information.


(c) 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.

(d) Cumulation of Closely Related Events.--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).


(Pub. L. 97-258, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 998; Pub. L. 98-473, title II,

Sec. 901(c), Oct. 12, 1984, 98 Stat. 2135; Pub. L. 99-570, title I,

Sec. 1358, title III, Sec. 3153, Oct. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 3207-26, 3207-

94.)



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