50 U.S.C. § 205 : US Code - Section 205: Suspension of commercial intercourse with State in insurrection

Search 50 U.S.C. § 205 : US Code - Section 205: Suspension of commercial intercourse with State in insurrection

Whenever the President, in pursuance of the provisions of this
chapter, has called forth the militia to suppress combinations
against the laws of the United States, and to cause the laws to be
duly executed, and the insurgents shall have failed to disperse by
the time directed by the President, and when the insurgents claim
to act under the authority of any State or States, and such claim
is not disclaimed or repudiated by the persons exercising the
functions of government in such State or States, or in the part or
parts thereof in which such combination exists, and such
insurrection is not suppressed by such State or States, or whenever
the inhabitants of any State or part thereof are at any time found
by the President to be in insurrection against the United States,
the President may, by proclamation, declare that the inhabitants of
such State, or of any section or part thereof where such
insurrection exists, are in a state of insurrection against the
United States; and thereupon all commercial intercourse by and
between the same and the citizens thereof and the citizens of the
rest of the United States shall cease and be unlawful so long as
such condition of hostility shall continue; and all goods and
chattels, wares and merchandise, coming from such State or section
into the other parts of the United States, or proceeding from other
parts of the United States to such State or section, by land or
water, shall, together with the vessel or vehicle conveying the
same, or conveying persons to or from such State or section, be
forfeited to the United States.