Customs officers are under the special protection of the law. It is especially forbidden to any natural or legal person, civilian or military, to engage in:
a) Insulting, abusing or disturbing them in the performance of their duties;
b) Oppose the exercise of their duties.
Civil and military authorities are obliged, at the first request, to assist customs officers in the performance of their duties.
Subject to the age conditions laid down by the laws in force, customs officers of all grades must take an oath before the competent court in whose jurisdiction their place of residence is located.
The oath is recorded free of charge at the court registry. The oath is exempt from stamp duty and registration. It is transcribed free of charge on employment commissions referred to in the law.
In the performance of their duties, customs officers must carry their commissions of employment, which must include the oath they have taken; They are required to show it at the first requisition.
Customs officers have the right to bear arms in the performance of their duties.
In addition to cases of self-defence, they may use them:
a) When violence or assault is used against them or when they are threatened by armed individuals;
b) When they cannot otherwise immobilize vehicles, boats and other means of transport whose drivers do not comply with the order to stop;
c) When they cannot otherwise oppose the passage of a group of people who do not stop when summoned;
d) When they are unable to capture alive dogs, horses and other animals used for fraud or attempted to be fraudulently imported or exported, or which are circulating irregularly.
Any customs officer who is dismissed or leaves his post is required to hand over his commission, registers, seals, arms and equipment immediately to his administration, and to render an account.
- Supervisory agents must undertake to leave the customs area for 3 years, in the event that they were in the area before joining the customs administration.
- Dismissed agents who fail to comply with a summons to leave the radius within one month shall be prosecuted by the public prosecutor before the competent court, at the instigation of the customs administration.
Any customs officer who has served uninterruptedly for three years in the supervisory branch must leave the customs department immediately upon dismissal.
It is forbidden for customs officers, subject to the penalties laid down in the penal code for public officials, to receive directly or indirectly any gratuity, reward or present in respect of their duties during the performance thereof.
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