Title 1 — General Provisions
Chapter 1 — Rules of Construction
§ 3. “Vessel” as including all means of water transportation
Statutory text
The word “vessel” includes every description of watercraft or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on water.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
1 U. S. C., § —
Pub. L. 80–388 · 61 Stat. 633
Enacted · 1 U.S.C. § 3
(July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 633.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 633.)
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Credits
(July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 633.)