Voluntary purchase or charter agreements

  1. Law
  2. USC 46
  3. Shipping
  4. Merchant Marine
  5. Control of Merchant Marine Capabilities
  6. EMERGENCY ACQUISITION OF VESSELS
  7. Voluntary purchase or charter agreements

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§56310. Voluntary purchase or charter agreements

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.

(Added and amended Pub. L. 115–91, div. C, title XXXV, §3504(b), Dec. 12, 2017, 131 Stat. 1912 .)

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), Aug. 6, 1981, 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 Aug. 9, 1954, to this chapter and renumbered it as this section. See Codification note above.

1 So in original.


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