---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 C.F.R. § 113.22"
title: "19"
number: "113.22"
heading: "Witnesses required."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/19/113.22"
---

# §113.22. Witnesses required.

- (a) **Generally.** The signature of each party to a bond executed by a noncorporate principal or surety must be witnessed by two persons, who must sign their names as witnesses, and include their addresses.
- (b) **Witness for both principal and surety.** When two persons signing as witnesses act for both principal and surety, they must so indicate by stating on the bond “as to both”.
- (c) **Corporate principal or surety.** No witnesses are required where bonds are executed by properly authorized officers or agents of a corporate principal or corporate surety. For requirements concerning the execution of a bond by an authorized officer or agent of a corporate principal or surety, see §§ [113.33](/cfr/19/113.33.md) and [113.37](/cfr/19/113.37.md) of this part.

## Notes

### Amendments

[T.D. 84-213, 49 FR 41171, Oct. 19, 1984, as amended by CBP Dec. 15-15, 80 FR 70164, Nov. 13, 2015]

### Authority

Authority: 19 U.S.C. 66, 1623, 1624. Subpart E also issued under 19 U.S.C. 1484, 1551, 1565. Section 113.74 also issued under 19 U.S.C. 1337. Section 113.75 and appendix C also issued under 19 U.S.C. 1484b.

### Source

Source: T.D. 84-213, 49 FR 41171, Oct. 19, 1984, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[T.D. 84-213, 49 FR 41171, Oct. 19, 1984, as amended by CBP Dec. 15-15, 80 FR 70164, Nov. 13, 2015]