22 U.S.C. § 451 — Submarines and armed merchant vessels

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During a war where the U.S. stays neutral, the President can ban foreign submarines and armed merchant ships from U.S. ports and waters. The President must first proclaim this ban, for reasons like protecting U.S. peace, commerce, or security. The President later revokes the ban once the reasons for it are gone.

During any war where the United States remains neutral, if the President decides that special limits on foreign submarines and armed merchant ships using U.S. ports and waters will help keep peace between the United States and other countries, protect U.S. commercial interests and citizens, or promote U.S. security, the President may proclaim those limits. Once that proclamation is made, it becomes unlawful for such a submarine or armed merchant vessel to enter or leave a U.S. port or U.S. waters, except under whatever conditions and limits the President sets. When the President later decides the conditions that led to the proclamation no longer exist, the President must revoke it. Once revoked, this section stops applying — except it still applies to offenses that happened before the revocation.

the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

Whenever, during any war in which the United States is neutral, the President shall find that special restrictions placed on the use of the ports and territorial waters of the United States by the submarines or armed merchant vessels of a foreign state will serve to maintain peace between the United States and foreign states, or to protect the commercial interests of the United States and its citizens, or to promote the security of the United States, and shall make proclamation thereof, it shall thereafter be unlawful for any such submarine or armed merchant vessel to enter a port or the territorial waters of the United States or to depart therefrom, except under such conditions and subject to such limitations as the President may prescribe. Whenever, in his judgment, the conditions which have caused him to issue his proclamation have ceased to exist, he shall revoke his proclamation and the provisions of this section shall thereupon cease to apply, except as to offenses committed prior to such revocation.

Source credit: (Nov. 4, 1939, ch. 2, § 11, 54 Stat. 9.)

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1939Enacted · Act of Nov. 4, 1939, ch. 2 · 54 Stat. 9

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