Volume 47
Public Law 72–421
To regulate radio equipment on ocean-going vessels using the ports of the Canal Zone.
Approved July 5, 1932
Statutory text
AN ACT
To regulate radio equipment on ocean-going vessels using the ports of the Canal Zone.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That it shall be unlawful for any ocean-going vessel carrying fifty or more persons, including passengers and crew, to leave or attempt to leave any port of the Canal Zone unless such vessel shall be equipped with an efficient apparatus for radio communication, in good working order, in charge of a person skilled in the use of such apparatus, which apparatus shall be capable of transmitting and receiving messages for a distance of at least one hundred miles, night or day. This requirement
Vessels in transit excepted.
shall not apply to vessels merely transiting the canal or to vessels plying between Canal Zone ports and ports less than two hundred miles therefrom.
Sec. 2.
That any vessel leaving or attempting to leave a Canal
Punishment.
Zone port not equipped as required by section 1 of this Act shall be liable to a fine not to exceed $5,000, and each such departure or attempted departure shall constitute a separate offense. Fines shall be recovered in the district court of the Canal Zone, and the amount so recovered shall be a lien upon such vessel, and it may be seized and sold to satisfy same, as well as all costs of the court proceedings.
Approved, July 5, 1932.