---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 U.S.C. § 2095"
title: "19"
title_heading: "Customs Duties"
number: "2095"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/19/2095"
units:
  - "Chapter 11 — Importation of Pre-Columbian Monumental or Architectural Sculpture or Murals"
---

# §2095. Definitions


For the purposes of this chapter—

- (1) The term “Secretary” means the Secretary of the Treasury.
- (2) The term “United States” includes the several [States](/usc/19/2577.md?p=2), the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
- (3) The term “pre-Columbian monumental or architectural sculpture or mural” means—
  - (A) any stone carving or wall art which—
    - (i) is the product of a pre-Columbian Indian culture of Mexico, Central America, South America, or the Caribbean Islands;
    - (ii) was an immobile monument or architectural structure or was a part of, or affixed to, any such monument or structure; and
    - (iii) is subject to export control by the [country of origin](#4); or
  - (B) any fragment or part of any stone carving or wall art described in subparagraph (A) of this paragraph.
- (4) The term “country of origin”, as applied to any [pre-Columbian monumental or architectural sculpture or mural](#3), means the [country](/usc/19/1677.md?p=3) where such sculpture or mural was first discovered.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 92–587, title II, § 205, Oct. 27, 1972, 86 Stat. 1297.)