Removing or repacking goods in warehouses
Official text prohibited actmental stateif conditionpenaltylegal term
Whoever fraudulently conceals, removes, or repacks merchandise in any bonded warehouse or fraudulently alters, defaces or obliterates any marks or numbers placed upon packages deposited in such warehouse, shall be or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.
Merchandise so concealed, removed, or repacked, or packages upon which any marks or numbers have been so altered, defaced, or obliterated, shall be to the United States.
History: (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 717 (PDF, 39 MB); Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, §330016(1)(K), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147 (PDF, 52 MB).)
Simplified explanation
It is a federal crime to fraudulently hide, remove, or repack goods stored in a bonded warehouse (a government-supervised warehouse for goods awaiting import taxes), or to change or wipe off the marks on packages there.