Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter 28 — Pollution Casualties on the High Seas: United States Intervention
§ 1478. Personal, flag state, and foreign state considerations
Statutory text
In the direction and conduct of measures under this chapter the Secretary shall use his best endeavors to—
assure the avoidance of risk to human life;
render all possible aid to distressed persons, including facilitating repatriation of ships’ crews; and
not unnecessarily interfere with rights and interests of others, including the flag state of any ship involved, other foreign states threatened by damage, and persons otherwise concerned.
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.
Intervention on the High Seas Act
Pub. L. 93–248 § 9 · [88 Stat. 8]
Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 1478
(Pub. L. 93–248, § 9, Feb. 5, 1974, 88 Stat. 9.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 93–248, § 9, Feb. 5, 1974, 88 Stat. 9.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 9. In the direction and conduct of measures under this Act the 33 USC 1478. Secretary shall use his best endeavors to— (1) assure the avoidance of risk to human life; (2) render all possible aid to distressed persons, including facilitating repatriation of ships’ crews; and (3) not unnecessarily interfere with rights and interests of others, including the flag state of any ship involved, other foreign states threatened by damage, and persons otherwise concerned.
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