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47 U.S.C. § 26 — Duties of commanders of warships

submitted 138 years ago by ch. 17 to r/title-47-TELECOMMUNICATIONS · 94 words · no verdicts yet

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This section lets the commander of a U.S. or foreign warship, or a specially commissioned ship, carry out an international convention's duties. Those duties are demanding that suspect vessels show documents proving their nationality, and reporting any violations.

To carry out the convention described in section 30 of this title, a person commanding a warship of the United States, or of any foreign country currently bound by that convention, may exercise and perform the duties the convention imposes. So may the commander of a ship specially commissioned by the U.S. government or by that foreign government. Those duties are: requiring vessels suspected of violating the convention to show documents proving their nationality, and making reports of any violations.
the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

For the purpose of carrying into effect the convention described in section 30 of this title a person commanding a ship of war of the United States or of any foreign state for the time being bound by the convention, or a ship specially commissioned by the Government of the United States or by the government of such foreign state, may exercise and perform the duties with respect to requiring exhibition of documents evidencing the nationality of offending vessels and making reports of infractions vested in and imposed on such officer by the convention.

Source credit: (Feb. 29, 1888, ch. 17, § 6, 25 Stat. 42.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit
  • 1888Enacted · Act of Feb. 29, 1888, ch. 17 · 25 Stat. 42

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 17 on 1888-02-29.

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