47-U.S.C.-355

§355 – Survival Craft

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Title 47 > Chapter 5 > Subchapter III > Part II > Section 355

Details

• Reference: Section 355
• Legend: §355 – Survival Craft
• USCode Year: 2013

Provision Content

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.

(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, Aug. 13, 1965, 79 Stat. 516.)

Amendments

1965—Pub. L. 89–121 substituted survival craft for lifeboat.

1954—Act Aug. 13, 1954, §2(a)(1), amended credit to section by changing section number from 355 to 357 of act June 19, 1934.

Act Aug. 13, 1954, §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.

Effective Date

Section effective May 20, 1937, unless deferred by the Commission, see section 16 of act May 20, 1937, set out as a note under section 351 of this title.

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