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Title 47 — Telecommunications

Part II · Chapter 5 — Wire or Radio Communication

§ 358. Master’s control over operations

Statutory text

The radio installation, the operators, the regulation of their watches, the transmission and receipt of messages, and the radio service of the ship except as they may be regulated by law or international agreement, or by rules and regulations made in pursuance thereof, shall in the case of a ship of the United States be under the supreme control of the master.

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.

  1. Pub. L. 75–652 · 50 Stat. 650

    Enacted · 47 U.S.C. § 358

    June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, § 360, formerly § 358, as added May 20, 1937, ch. 229, § 10(b), 50 Stat. 195

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, § 360, formerly § 358, as added May 20, 1937, ch. 229, § 10(b), 50 Stat. 195

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective , see section 16 of act , set out as a note under section 351 of this title.

Credits

1934–1954 · 2 acts
  1. 1934June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, § 360, formerly § 358, as added May 20, 1937, ch. 229, § 10(b), 50 Stat. 195
  2. 1954renumbered § 360, ch. 729, § 2(a)(1), , 68 Stat. 706.
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(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, § 360, formerly § 358, as added May 20, 1937, ch. 229, § 10(b), 50 Stat. 195; renumbered § 360, ch. 729, § 2(a)(1), , 68 Stat. 706.)

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