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[CITE: 47USC363]

 
          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. 363. Automated ship distress and safety systems

    Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter or any other provision 
of law or regulation, a ship documented under the laws of the United 
States operating in accordance with the Global Maritime Distress and 
Safety System provisions of the Safety of Life at Sea Convention shall 
not be required to be equipped with a radio telegraphy station operated 
by one or more radio officers or operators. This section shall take 
effect for each vessel upon a determination by the United States Coast 
Guard that such vessel has the equipment required to implement the 
Global Maritime Distress and Safety System installed and operating in 
good working condition.

(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, Sec. 365, as added Pub. L. 104-104, 
title II, Sec. 206, Feb. 8, 1996, 110 Stat. 114.)
