Title 46 — Shipping
Part E · Chapter 563 — Emergency Acquisition of Vessels
§ 56310. Voluntary purchase or charter agreements
Statutory text
During any period in which vessels may be requisitioned under this chapter as amended,1 the President is authorized through the Secretary of Transportation to acquire by voluntary agreement of purchase or charter the ownership or use of any merchant vessel not owned by citizens of the United States.
Footnotes
- 1 So in original.
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.
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018
Pub. L. 115–91 div. C title XXXV § 3504(b) · 131 Stat. 1283
Enacted · 46 U.S.C. § 56310
(Added and amended Pub. L. 115–91, div. C, title XXXV, § 3504(b), Dec. 12, 2017, 131 Stat. 1912.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Added and amended Pub. L. 115–91, div. C, title XXXV, § 3504(b), Dec. 12, 2017, 131 Stat. 1912.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
(b) Voluntary Purchase or Charter Agreements.— Section 2 of such Act (50 U.S.C. 197)— (1) is redesignated as section 56310 of title 46, United States Code, and transferred to appear after section 56309 of such title (as amended by subsection (a)); and (2) is amended— (A) by striking so much as proceeds “During” and inserting the following: “§ 56310. Voluntary purchase or charter agreements” ; and (B) by striking “section 902 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936,” and inserting “this chapter”.National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018
Pub. L. 115–91 § 3504(b)(2) · 131 Stat. 1283
Inserted · 46 U.S.C. § 56310
Pub. L. 115–91, § 3504(b)(2), inserted section enumerator and catchline and, in text
Substituted · 46 U.S.C. § 56310
Pub. L. 115–91, § 3504(b)(2), substituted “this chapter” for “section 902 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936,”
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 115–91, § 3504(b)(2), inserted section enumerator and catchline and, in text, substituted “this chapter” for “section 902 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936,”.Enacted provision · exact public law section
(2) is amended— (A) by striking so much as proceeds “During” and inserting the following: “§ 56310. Voluntary purchase or charter agreements” ; and (B) by striking “section 902 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936,” and inserting “this chapter”.National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018
Pub. L. 115–91 § 3504(b)(1) · 131 Stat. 1283
Changed · 46 U.S.C. § 56310
Pub. L. 115–91, § 3504(b)(1), transferred section 2 of act Aug. 9, 1954, to this chapter and renumbered it as this section. See Codification note above
Target inherited from the preceding amendment note.
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 115–91, § 3504(b)(1), transferred section 2 of act Aug. 9, 1954, to this chapter and renumbered it as this section. See Codification note above.Enacted provision · exact public law section
(1) is redesignated as section 56310 of title 46, United States Code, and transferred to appear after section 56309 of such title (as amended by subsection (a)); and
4 of 4 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section, as added and amended by section 3504(b) of Pub. L. 115–91, is based on act Aug. 9, 1954, ch. 659, § 2, 68 Stat. 675; Pub. L. 97–31, § 12(152), , 95 Stat. 167, which was formerly classified to section 197 of Title 50, War and National Defense, before being transferred to this chapter and renumbered as this section.
Amendments
2017—Pub. L. 115–91, § 3504(b)(2), inserted section enumerator and catchline and, in text, substituted “this chapter” for “section 902 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936,”.
Pub. L. 115–91, § 3504(b)(1), transferred section 2 of act , to this chapter and renumbered it as this section. See Codification note above.
Credits
(Added and amended Pub. L. 115–91, div. C, title XXXV, § 3504(b), , 131 Stat. 1912.)