Title 47 — Telecommunications
Part II · Chapter 5 — Wire or Radio Communication
§ 355. Survival craft
Statutory text
Every ship required to be provided with survival craft radio by treaty to which the United States is a party, by statute, or by regulation made in conformity with a treaty, convention, or statute, shall be fitted with efficient radio equipment appropriate to such requirement under such rules and regulations as the Commission may find necessary for safety of life. For purposes of this section, “radio equipment” shall include portable as well as nonportable apparatus.
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.
Pub. L. 75–652 · 50 Stat. 650
Enacted · 47 U.S.C. § 355
June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, § 357, formerly § 355, as added May 20, 1937, ch. 229, § 10(b), 50 Stat. 194
Source evidence
Code source credit
June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, § 357, formerly § 355, as added May 20, 1937, ch. 229, § 10(b), 50 Stat. 194Pub. L. 89–121 § 8 · 79 Stat. 511
Substituted · 47 U.S.C. § 355
Pub. L. 89–121 substituted “survival craft” for “lifeboat”
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 89–121 substituted “survival craft” for “lifeboat”.Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 8. Section 357 of the Communications Act of 1934 is amended to read as follows: “Sec. 357. “survival craft Every ship required to be provided with survival craft radio by treaty to which the United States is a party, by statute, or by regulation made in conformity with a treaty, convention, or statute, shall be fitted with efficient radio equipment appropriate to such requirement under such rules and regulations as the Commission may find necessary for safety of life. For purposes of this section, ‘radio equipment’ shall include portable as well as nonportable apparatus.”
1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
Amendments1954–1965 · 2 rounds
1965
Pub. L. 89–121 substituted “survival craft” for “lifeboat”.
1954
Act , § 2(a)(1), amended credit to section by changing section number from “355” to “357” of act .
Act , § 2(e), provided that lifeboats be equipped with “radio equipment” rather than a “radio installation” and defined “radio equipment” as including portable as well as nonportable apparatus.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section effective , unless deferred by the Commission, see section 16 of act , set out as a note under section 351 of this title.
Credits
1934–1965 · 3 acts
- 1934June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, § 357, formerly § 355, as added May 20, 1937, ch. 229, § 10(b), 50 Stat. 194
- 1954renumbered § 357 and amended Aug. 13, 1954, ch. 729, § 2(a)(1), (e), 68 Stat. 706, 707
- 1965Pub. L. 89–121, § 8, , 79 Stat. 516.
Show as published
(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, § 357, formerly § 355, as added May 20, 1937, ch. 229, § 10(b), 50 Stat. 194; renumbered § 357 and amended Aug. 13, 1954, ch. 729, § 2(a)(1), (e), 68 Stat. 706, 707; Pub. L. 89–121, § 8, , 79 Stat. 516.)