A bill to implement the UNESCO convention on the means of prohibiting and preventing the illicit import, export, and transfer of ownership of cultural property.

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Provides for the implementation of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export, and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property. Provides that whenever the President determines that (1) the cultural patrimony of a State Party to the Convention is in jeopardy from pillage of archeological or ethnological materials; (2) the State Party has taken measures for the protection of its cultural patrimony; and (3) import controls by the United States would help deter such pillage, the President may enter into an agreement with the State Party, and with other governments as appropriate, to restrict the importation of protected objects of archeological or ethnological interest. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury, after consultation with the Secretary of State, to promulgate, and when appropriate shall revise, a list of protected objects of archeological or ethnological interests within the meaning. Requires the consignees of any protected object of archeological or ethnological interest to present appropriate certificates and evidence to customs officers at the time of making entry of such object. Provides that any protected object of archeological or ethnological interest imported into the United States in violation of this Act shall be seized and subject to forfeiture. Prescribes the procedures to be followed whenever any person is interested in any article seized, including filing with the Secretary of the Treasury a petition for the remission of such forfeiture.

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 3 December 1973

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