Title 46 — Shipping
Part D · Chapter 63 — Investigating Marine Casualties
§ 6309. Voyage data recorder access
Statutory text
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Coast Guard shall have full, concurrent, and timely access to and ability to use voyage data recorder data and audio held by any Federal agency in all marine casualty investigations, regardless of which agency is the investigative lead.
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.
Hamm Alert Maritime Safety Act of 2018
Pub. L. 115–265 title II § 207(a) · 132 Stat. 3742
Enacted · 46 U.S.C. § 6309
(Added Pub. L. 115–265, title II, § 207(a), Oct. 11, 2018, 132 Stat. 3747.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Added Pub. L. 115–265, title II, § 207(a), Oct. 11, 2018, 132 Stat. 3747.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
(a) In General.— Chapter 63 of title 46, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: “§ 6309. Voyage data recorder access “Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Coast Guard shall have full, concurrent, and timely access to and ability to use voyage data recorder data and audio held by any Federal agency in all marine casualty investigations, regardless of which agency is the investigative lead.” .
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Credits
(Added Pub. L. 115–265, title II, § 207(a), , 132 Stat. 3747.)