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[CITE: 50USC195]

 
                   TITLE 50--WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
       CHAPTER 12--VESSELS IN TERRITORIAL WATERS OF UNITED STATES
 
Sec. 195. ``United States'' defined

    The term ``United States'' as used in this Act includes all 
territory and waters, continental or insular, subject to the 
jurisdiction of the United States.

(June 15, 1917, ch. 30, title XIII, Sec. 1, 40 Stat. 231; Pub. L. 96-70, 
title III, Sec. 3302(b), Sept. 27, 1979, 93 Stat. 498.)

                       References in Text

    This Act, referred to in text, means act June 15, 1917, ch. 30, 40 
Stat. 217, as amended. For complete classification of this Act to the 
Code, see Tables.

                          Codification

    Section was formerly classified to section 40 of this title. In the 
original this section defined ``United States'' as used in act June 15, 
1917. Other provisions of that act were contained in sections 31 to 42 
of this title and certain sections of former Title 18, Criminal Code and 
Criminal Procedure. The definition of ``United States'' as used in 
present provisions derived from those former sections is covered by 
sections 5 and 14 of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure.


                               Amendments

    1979--Pub. L. 96-70 struck out ``the Canal Zone and'' after ``this 
Act includes''.


                    Effective Date of 1979 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 96-70 effective Oct. 1, 1979, see section 3304 
of Pub. L. 96-70, set out as an Effective Date note under section 3601 
of Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse.
