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[CITE: 47USC353a]

 
          TITLE 47--TELEGRAPHS, TELEPHONES, AND RADIOTELEGRAPHS
 
                 CHAPTER 5--WIRE OR RADIO COMMUNICATION
 
          SUBCHAPTER III--SPECIAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO RADIO
 
       Part II--Radio Equipment and Radio Operators On Board Ship
 
Sec. 353a. Operators and watches on radiotelephone equipped 
        ships
        
    (a) Each cargo ship which in accordance with this part is equipped 
with a radiotelephone station shall, for safety purposes, carry at least 
one operator who may be the master, an officer, or a member of the crew.
    (b) Each cargo ship of the United States which in accordance with 
this part is equipped with a radiotelephone station shall, while being 
navigated in the open sea outside of a harbor or port, maintain 
continuous watch whenever the station is not being used for authorized 
traffic.

(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, Sec. 354, as added Aug. 13, 1954, 
ch. 729, Sec. 2(b), 68 Stat. 706; amended Pub. L. 89-121, Sec. 5, Aug. 
13, 1965, 79 Stat. 514.)


                               Amendments

    1965--Pub. L. 89-121 substituted ``radiotelephone station'' for 
``radiotelephone installation'' in two places, and ``one operator who 
may be the master, an officer, or a member of the crew'' for ``one 
qualified operator who may be a member of the crew holding only a 
certificate for radio telephony'', inserted ``in the open sea'' before 
``outside of a harbor'', and required a continuous watch whenever the 
station is not being used for authorized traffic.
