Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter 38 — Dumping of Medical Waste by Public Vessels
§ 2502. Definitions
Statutory text
For the purposes of this chapter:
Potentially infectious medical waste
The term “potentially infectious medical waste” includes isolation wastes; infectious agents; human blood and blood products; pathological wastes; sharps; body parts; contaminated bedding; surgical wastes; and other disposable medical equipment and material that may pose a risk to the public health, welfare or the marine environment.
Public vessel
The term “public vessel” means a vessel of any type whatsoever (including hydrofoils, air-cushion vehicles, submersibles, floating craft whether propelled or not, and fixed or floating platforms) that is owned, or demise chartered, and operated by the United States Government, and is not engaged in commercial service.
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.
United States Public Vessel Medical Waste Anti-Dumping Act of 1988
Pub. L. 100–688 title III § 3103 · 102 Stat. 4139
Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 2502
(Pub. L. 100–688, title III, § 3103, Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4152.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 100–688, title III, § 3103, Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4152.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 3103. DEFINITIONS. For the purposes of this subtitle: (1) Potentially infectious medical waste.— The term “potentially infectious medical waste” includes isolation wastes; infectious agents; human blood and blood products; pathological wastes; sharps; body parts; contaminated bedding; surgical wastes; and other disposable medical equipment and material that may pose a risk to the public health, welfare or the marine environment. (2) Public vessel.— The term “public vessel” means a vessel of any type whatsoever (including hydrofoils, air-cushion vehicles, submersibles, floating craft whether propelled or not, and fixed or floating platforms) that is owned, or demise chartered, and operated by the United States Government, and is not engaged in commercial service.
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