1.6 Customs Laboratories.-- The addresses of the several Customs laboratories and the Customs regions served thereby are as follows: TDs 55206, 55341. 66-161, 68-282, 74-20. 1.7 Hours of business.--(a) Except as specified in paragraphs (b)-(g) of this section, each customs office shall be open for the transaction of general customs business between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. on all days of the year except Saturdays, Sundays, and national holidays.10 PCL's 8/27/45; 9/27/46; TDs 38886, 48464, 49588, 51321, 5560 66-161, 73-64. (b) Different but equivalent hours shall be observed if a difference is required TD 66-161. for the maintenance of adequate service because of local conditions, is approved by the Commissioner of Customs, and a notice of the hours of business is prominently displayed at the principal entrance and in each public room of the customs office. (c) At each port or station where there is no full-time customs employee, the TD 66-161. hours during which the customs office will be open for the transaction of general customs business shall be fixed by the district director of customs concerned with the approval of the regional commissioner of customs, and notice thereof shall be displayed prominently at the principal entrance of the office. (d) Each customs office shall be open for the transaction of business on all TDs 53777, 66–161, state and local holidays occurring on days other than Saturdays, Sundays, and 69-95. national holidays. If a state or local holiday interferes with the performance of work in a customs office by any customs employee or employees, the appropriate principal field officer may excuse such employee or employees from duty without charge to leave. (e) Customs services required to be performed outside a customs office shall TD 66-161. be furnished between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. (or between the corresponding hours at ports where different but equivalent hours are required for the maintenance of adequate service and are approved by the Commissioner of Customs) on all days when the customs office is open for the transaction of general customs business. In accordance with such instructions as the regional commissioner of customs shall have issued from time to time and upon reasonable advance notice to the principal local officer concerned, such services may be furnished between the same hours on Saturdays. (f) Where there is a regularly recurring need for customs services outside TD 66-161. the above-prescribed hours, and the volume and duration of the required services are uniformly such as to require, of themselves or in immediately consecutive combination with other essential customs activities of the port, the full time of one or more customs employees, the necessary number of regular tours of duty to furnish such services on all days of the year except Sundays and national holidays may be established with the approval of the Commissioner of Customs. (g) Customs services shall be furnished private interests otherwise than as TD 66-161. specified in this section only in accordance with the provisions of section 24.16 of these regulations. 10 The national holidays are the first day of January, the third Monday of February, the last Monday of May, the fourth day of July, the first Monday of September, the second Monday of October, the fourth Monday of October, the fourth Thursday of November, the twenty-fifth day of December, or any other calendar day designated as a holiday by Federal statute or Executive order. If a holiday falls on Saturday, the day immediately preceding such Saturday will be observed, (5 U.S.C. 6103(b)(1)) If a holiday falls on Sunday, the following day will be observed. (E.O. No. 11582, January 1, 1971; 34 FR 2957; 3 CFR Ch. II). CR-10-1 TDs 66-8, 66-161, 74-181. TD 66-161. TD 66-161. TD 72-211. TD 73-175. 1.8 Customs seal.--(a) The Customs seal of the United States, consisting of the seal of the Department of the Treasury surrounded by an outer circle in which appears the words "Treasury" at the top and "U.S. Customs Service" at the bottom according to the design furnished by the Department of the Treasury, shall be impressed upon all official documents requiring the impress of a seal, provided that the Customs seal currently in official use, including the dies, rolls, plates, and like devices now in the possession of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, shall continue to be equally effective as the official seal of the United States Customs Service, and shall continue to be so used by each Customs officer and employee having possession of the device of the seal, until that particular device needs to be replaced and is replaced. (b) The impress of the seal is not necessary on documents passing within the Customs Service. The seal shall be impressed on marine documents, and on landing certificates, certificates of weight, gauge, or measure, and similar classes of documents for outside interests. (c) The official seal shall not be used in the manner of a notary seal to indicate authority to administer oaths. 1.9 Identification cards.--(a) Each Customs employee, other than an officer of the Customs Agency Service, who needs identification in the performance of his official duties shall be furnished an identification card on Customs Form 3135. (b) The Commissioner will issue identification cards in appropriate cases to principal field officers. Each principal field officer shall be the issuing officer for the employees under his jurisdiction. (c) Special identification cards signed by the Commissioner, shall be issued to officers of the Customs Agency Service. All officers of the Customs Agency Service are authorized to carry weapons in the performance of their official duties, and specific authorization is therefore omitted from their identification cards. 1.11 Definitions.--As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth, unless (a) the context in which they are used requires a different meaning or (b) a different definition is prescribed for a particular part or portion thereof: Duties. "Duties" means Customs duties and any internal revenue taxes which attach upon importation. Date of entry. See section 141.68 of this chapter. Date of exportation. See section 152.1 (c) of this chapter. Date of importation. "Date of importation" means, in the case of merchandise imported otherwise than by vessel, the date on which the merchandise arrives within the Customs territory of the United States. In the case of merchandise imported by vessel, the date on which the vessel arrives within the limits of a port in the United States with intent then and there to unlade shall be deemed the date of importation of that merchandise as to which there is such intent to unlade. Entry or withdrawal for consumption. "Entry or withdrawal for consumption" means entry for consumption or withdrawal from warehouse for consumption. Importer. "Importer" means the person primarily liable for the payment of any duties on the merchandise, or an authorized agent acting on his behalf. The term includes, as appropriate: (1) the consignee, (2) the importer of record, (3) the actual owner if an actual owner's declaration and superseding bond has been filed in accordance with section 141.20 of this chapter, or (4) the transferee if the right to withdraw merchandise in a bonded warehouse has been transferred in accordance with subpart C of Part 144 of this chapter. 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