Fund

(1) There is established in the Treasury of the United States a fund to be known as the “Customs Forfeiture Fund” (hereafter in this section referred to as the “Fund”), which shall be available to the United States Customs Service, subject to appropriation, with respect to seizures and forfeitures by the United States Customs Service and the United States Coast Guard under any law enforced or administered by those agencies for payment, or for reimbursement to the appropriation from which payment was made, for— (A) all proper expenses of the seizure (including investigative costs incurred by the United States Customs Service leading to seizures) or the proceedings of forfeiture and sale, including, but not limited to, the expenses of inventory, security, and maintenance of custody of the property, advertisement and sale of the property, and if condemned by the court and a bond for such costs was not given, the costs as taxed by the court; (B) awards of compensation to informers under section 1619 of this title ; (C) satisfaction of— (i) liens for freight, charges, and contributions in general average, notice of which has been filed with the appropriate customs officer according to law, and (ii) other liens against forfeited property; (D) amounts authorized by law with respect to remission and mitigation; (E) claims of parties in interest to property disposed of under section 1612(b) of this title , in the amounts applicable to such claims at the time of seizure; and (F) equitable sharing payments made to other Federal agencies, State and local law enforcement agencies, and foreign countries under the authority of section 1616a(c) of this title or section 981 of title 18 .

Source

19 USC § 1613b(a)(1)


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