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[CITE: 50USC197]

 
                   TITLE 50--WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
       CHAPTER 12--VESSELS IN TERRITORIAL WATERS OF UNITED STATES
 
Sec. 197. Voluntary purchase or charter agreements

    During any period in which vessels may be requisitioned under 
section 1242 of title 46, Appendix, the President is authorized through 
the Secretary of Transportation to acquire by voluntary agreement of 
purchase or charter the ownership or use of any merchant vessel not 
owned by citizens of the United States.

(Aug. 9, 1954, ch. 659, Sec. 2, 68 Stat. 675; Pub. L. 97-31, 
Sec. 12(152), Aug. 6, 1981, 95 Stat. 167.)


                               Amendments

    1981--Pub. L. 97-31 substituted ``Secretary of Transportation'' for 
``Secretary of Commerce''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 198 of this title.
