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[CITE: 47USC355]

 
          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. 355. Survival craft

    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, Sec. 357, formerly Sec. 355, as 
added May 20, 1937, ch. 229, Sec. 10(b), 50 Stat. 194; renumbered 
Sec. 357 and amended Aug. 13, 1954, ch. 729, Sec. 2(a)(1), (e), 68 Stat. 
706, 707; Pub. L. 89-121, Sec. 8, Aug. 13, 1965, 79 Stat. 516.)


                               Amendments

    1965--Pub. L. 89-121 substituted ``survival craft'' for 
``lifeboat''.
    1954--Act Aug. 13, 1954, Sec. 2(a)(1), amended credit to section by 
changing section number from ``355'' to ``357'' of act June 19, 1934.
    Act Aug. 13, 1954, Sec. 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.
