---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 U.S.C. § 1561"
title: "19"
title_heading: "Customs Duties"
number: "1561"
heading: "Public stores"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/19/1561"
units:
  - "Chapter 4 — Tariff Act of 1930"
  - "Subtitle III — Administrative Provisions"
  - "Part IV — Transportation in Bond and Warehousing of Merchandise"
---

# §1561. Public stores


Any premises owned or leased by the Government and used for the storage of merchandise for the final release of which from customs custody a permit has not been issued shall be known as a “public store.”


## Source credit

(June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title IV, § 561, 46 Stat. 745.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in act Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 356, title IV, § 561, 42 Stat. 978. That section was superseded by section 561 of act June 17, 1930, comprising this section, and repealed by section 651(a)(1) of the 1930 act.