Volume 74
Public Law 86–396
To extend the application of the Motorboat Act of 1940 to certain possessions of the United States.
Approved March 28, 1960
Statutory text
JOINT RESOLUTION
To extend the application of the Motorboat Act of 1940 to certain possessions of the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That subsection (c) of section 6 of the Federal Boating Act of 1958. approved September 2, 1958 (72 Stat. 1754), is amended to read as follows:
“(c) Such Act of April 25, 1940 (46 U.S.C. 526–526t), is further amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section:
“‘Sec. 22.
(a) Thus Act shall apply to every motorboat or vessel on the navigable waters of the United States, Guam, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia, and every motorboat or vessel owned in a State and using the high seas.
“ ‘(b)
As used in this Act—
“ ‘The term “State” means a State of the United States, Guam, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia.’ ”
Approved March 28, 1960.