---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 U.S.C. § 2093"
title: "19"
title_heading: "Customs Duties"
number: "2093"
heading: "Forfeiture of unlawful imports"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/19/2093"
units:
  - "Chapter 11 — Importation of Pre-Columbian Monumental or Architectural Sculpture or Murals"
---

# §2093. Forfeiture of unlawful imports

- (a) **Seizure—** Any [pre-Columbian monumental or architectural sculpture or mural](/usc/19/2095.md?p=3) imported into the [United States](/usc/19/2095.md?p=2) in violation of this chapter shall be seized and subject to forfeiture under the customs laws.
- (b) **Disposition of articles—** Any [pre-Columbian monumental or architectural sculpture or mural](/usc/19/2095.md?p=3) which is forfeited to the [United States](/usc/19/2095.md?p=2) shall—
  - (1) first be offered for return to the [country of origin](/usc/19/2095.md?p=4) and shall be returned if that [country](/usc/19/1677.md?p=3) bears all expenses incurred incident to such return and complies with such other requirements relating to the return as the [Secretary](/usc/19/2095.md?p=1) shall prescribe; or
  - (2) if not returned to the [country of origin](/usc/19/2095.md?p=4), be disposed of in the manner prescribed by law for articles forfeited for violation of the customs laws.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 92–587, title II, § 203, Oct. 27, 1972, 86 Stat. 1297.)