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[CITE: 10USC379]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
            PART I--ORGANIZATION AND GENERAL MILITARY POWERS
 
   CHAPTER 18--MILITARY SUPPORT FOR CIVILIAN LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES
 
Sec. 379. Assignment of Coast Guard personnel to naval vessels 
        for law enforcement purposes
        
    (a) The Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Transportation 
shall provide that there be assigned on board every appropriate surface 
naval vessel at sea in a drug-interdiction area members of the Coast 
Guard who are trained in law enforcement and have powers of the Coast 
Guard under title 14, including the power to make arrests and to carry 
out searches and seizures.
    (b) Members of the Coast Guard assigned to duty on board naval 
vessels under this section shall perform such law enforcement functions 
(including drug-interdiction functions)--
        (1) as may be agreed upon by the Secretary of Defense and the 
    Secretary of Transportation; and
        (2) as are otherwise within the jurisdiction of the Coast Guard.

    (c) No fewer than 500 active duty personnel of the Coast Guard shall 
be assigned each fiscal year to duty under this section. However, if at 
any time the Secretary of Transportation, after consultation with the 
Secretary of Defense, determines that there are insufficient naval 
vessels available for purposes of this section, such personnel may be 
assigned other duty involving enforcement of laws listed in section 
374(b)(4)(A) of this title.
    (d) In this section, the term ``drug-interdiction area'' means an 
area outside the land area of the United States (as defined in section 
374(b)(4)(B) of this title) in which the Secretary of Defense (in 
consultation with the Attorney General) determines that activities 
involving smuggling of drugs into the United States are ongoing.

(Added Pub. L. 99-570, title III, Sec. 3053(b)(1), Oct. 27, 1986, 100 
Stat. 3207-75; amended Pub. L. 100-456, div. A, title XI, Sec. 1104(a), 
Sept. 29, 1988, 102 Stat. 2045.)


                               Amendments

    1988--Pub. L. 100-456 amended section generally, substituting 
``every appropriate surface naval vessel'' for ``appropriate surface 
naval vessels'' in subsec. (a), substituting ``section 374(b)(4)(A)'' 
for ``section 374(a)(1)'' in subsec. (c), and inserting ``(as defined in 
section 374(b)(4)(B) of this title)'' in subsec. (d).

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 14 section 637.
