Regulations last checked for updates: May 23, 2025

Title 31 - Money and Finance: Treasury last revised: May 14, 2025
§ 101.5 - Payment of smelting costs.

The petitioner shall be required to pay all reasonable costs incurred in extracting the bullion from the counterfeit coins, as shall be determined by the Assistant Secretary. Payment must be made prior to the return of the gold bullion to the petitioner.

authority: 18 U.S.C. 492.
source: 42 FR 1472, Jan. 7, 1977, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 31 CFR 101.5