31 U.S.C. § 5316 : US Code - Section 5316: Reports on exporting and importing monetary instruments

Search 31 U.S.C. § 5316 : US Code - Section 5316: Reports on exporting and importing monetary instruments

(a) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, a
person or an agent or bailee of the person shall file a report
under subsection (b) of this section when the person, agent, or
bailee knowingly -
(1) transports, is about to transport, or has transported,
monetary instruments of more than $10,000 at one time -
(A) from a place in the United States to or through a place
outside the United States; or
(B) to a place in the United States from or through a place
outside the United States; or
(2) receives monetary instruments of more than $10,000 at one
time transported into the United States from or through a place
outside the United States.
(b) A report under this section shall be filed at the time and
place the Secretary of the Treasury prescribes. The report shall
contain the following information to the extent the Secretary
prescribes:
(1) the legal capacity in which the person filing the report is
acting.
(2) the origin, destination, and route of the monetary
instruments.
(3) when the monetary instruments are not legally and
beneficially owned by the person transporting the instruments, or
if the person transporting the instruments personally is not
going to use them, the identity of the person that gave the
instruments to the person transporting them, the identity of the
person who is to receive them, or both.
(4) the amount and kind of monetary instruments transported.
(5) additional information.
(c) This section or a regulation under this section does not
apply to a common carrier of passengers when a passenger possesses
a monetary instrument, or to a common carrier of goods if the
shipper does not declare the instrument.
(d) Cumulation of Closely Related Events. - The Secretary of the
Treasury may prescribe regulations under this section defining the
term "at one time" for purposes of subsection (a). Such regulations
may permit the cumulation of closely related events in order that
such events may collectively be considered to occur at one time for
the purposes of subsection (a).