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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 191. Regulation of anchorage and movement of vessels during national emergency
Whenever the President by proclamation or Executive order
declares a national emergency to exist by reason of actual or
threatened war, insurrection, or invasion, or disturbance or
threatened disturbance of the international relations of the United
States, or whenever the Attorney General determines that an actual
or anticipated mass migration of aliens en route to, or arriving
off the coast of, the United States presents urgent circumstances
requiring an immediate Federal response, the Secretary of
Transportation may make, subject to the approval of the President,
rules and regulations governing the anchorage and movement of any
vessel, foreign or domestic, in the territorial waters of the
United States, may inspect such vessel at any time, place guards
thereon, and, if necessary in his opinion in order to secure such
vessels from damage or injury, or to prevent damage or injury to
any harbor or waters of the United States, or to secure the
observance of the rights and obligations of the United States, may
take, by and with the consent of the President, for such purposes,
full possession and control of such vessel and remove therefrom the
officers and crew thereof and all other persons not specially
authorized by him to go or remain on board thereof.
Whenever the President finds that the security of the United
States is endangered by reason of actual or threatened war, or
invasion, or insurrection, or subversive activity, or of
disturbances or threatened disturbances of the international
relations of the United States, the President is authorized to
institute such measures and issue such rules and regulations -
(a) to govern the anchorage and movement of any foreign-flag
vessels in the territorial waters of the United States, to
inspect such vessels at any time, to place guards thereon, and,
if necessary in his opinion in order to secure such vessels from
damage or injury, or to prevent damage or injury to any harbor or
waters of the United States, or to secure the observance of
rights and obligations of the United States, may take for such
purposes full possession and control of such vessels and remove
therefrom the officers and crew thereof, and all other persons
not especially authorized by him to go or remain on board
thereof;
(b) to safeguard against destruction, loss, or injury from
sabotage or other subversive acts, accidents, or other causes of
similar nature, vessels, harbors, ports, and waterfront
facilities in the United States and all territory and water,
continental or insular, subject to the jurisdiction of the United
States.
Any appropriation available to any of the Executive Departments
shall be available to carry out the provisions of this title.(!1)
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