Reports required

§ 231. Reports required (a) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, whoever, whether as principal, agent, or bailee, or by an agent or bailee, knowingly— (1) transports or causes to be transported monetary instruments— (A) from any place within the United States to or through any place outside the United States, or (B) to any place within the United States from or through any place outside the United States, or (2) receives monetary instruments at the termination of their transportation to the United States from or through any place outside the United States in an amount exceeding $5,000 on any one occasion shall file a report or reports in accordance with subsection (b) of this section. 84 Stat. 1123 (b) Reports required under this section shall be filed at such times and places, and may contain such of the following information and any additional information, in such form and in such detail, as the Secretary may require: (1) The legal capacity in which the person filing the report is acting with respect to the monetary instruments transported. (2) The origin, destination, and route of the transportation. (3) Where the monetary instruments are not legally and beneficially owned by the person transporting the same, or are transported for any purpose other than the use in his own behalf of the person transporting the same, the identities of the person from whom the monetary instruments are received, or to whom they are to be delivered, or both. (4) The amounts and types of monetary instruments transported. (c) Subsection (a) does not apply to any common carrier of passengers in respect, of monetary instruments in the possession of its passengers, nor to any common carrier of goods in respect of shipments of monetary instruments not declared to be such by the shipper.