---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 U.S.C. § 81l"
title: "19"
title_heading: "Customs Duties"
number: "81l"
heading: "Facilities to be provided and maintained"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/19/81l"
units:
  - "Chapter 1A — Foreign Trade Zones"
---

# §81l. Facilities to be provided and maintained


Each [grantee](/usc/19/81a.md?p=h) shall provide and maintain in connection with the [zone](/usc/19/81a.md?p=i)—

- (a) Adequate slips, docks, wharves, warehouses, loading and unloading and mooring facilities where the [zone](/usc/19/81a.md?p=i) is adjacent to water; or, in the case of an inland [zone](/usc/19/81a.md?p=i), adequate loading, unloading, and warehouse facilities;
- (b) Adequate transportation connections with the surrounding territory and with all parts of the [United States](/usc/19/1683.md?p=9), so arranged as to permit of proper guarding and inspection for the protection of the revenue;
- (c) Adequate facilities for coal or other fuel and for light and power;
- (d) Adequate water and sewer mains;
- (e) Adequate quarters and facilities for the officers and employees of the [United States](/usc/19/1683.md?p=9), [State](/usc/19/81a.md?p=c), and municipality whose duties may require their presence within the [zone](/usc/19/81a.md?p=i);
- (f) Adequate enclosures to segregate the [zone](/usc/19/81a.md?p=i) from customs territory for protection of the revenue, together with suitable provisions for ingress and egress of [persons](/usc/19/1683.md?p=8), conveyances, vessels, and merchandise;
- (g) Such other facilities as may be required by the [Board](/usc/19/81a.md?p=b).

## Source credit

(June 18, 1934, ch. 590, § 12, 48 Stat. 1001.)