{"identifier":"/us/usc/t14/s527","title":14,"num":"\u00a7\u202f527.","heading":"Safety of vessels of the Armed Forces","text":"\u00a7\u202f527.\nSafety of vessels of the Armed Forces\n(a) The Secretary may control the anchorage and movement of any vessel in the navigable waters of the United States to ensure the safety or security of any vessel of the Armed Forces in those waters.\n(b) If the Secretary does not exercise the authority in subsection (a) of this section and immediate action is required, the senior officer present in command may control the anchorage or movement of any vessel in the navigable waters of the United States to ensure the safety and security of any vessel of the Armed Forces under the officer\u2019s command.\n(c) If a person violates, or a vessel is operated in violation of, this section or a regulation or order issued under this section, the person or vessel is subject to the enforcement provisions in section 13\n1\n1 See References in Text note below.\n33 U.S.C. 1232\n(d) As used in this section \u201cnavigable waters of the United States\u201d includes all waters of the territorial sea of the United States as described in Presidential Proclamation No. 5928 of\nDecember 27, 1988\n(e) For purposes of this title, the term \u201cvessel of the Armed Forces\u201d means\u2014\n(1) any vessel owned or operated by the Department of Defense or the Coast Guard, other than a time- or voyage-chartered vessel; and\n(2) any vessel owned and operated by the Department of Transportation that is designated by the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating as a vessel equivalent to a vessel described in paragraph (1).","url":"https://projectusc.org/usc/t14/s527.html","content":[{"t":"sec","id":"/us/usc/t14/s527","children":[{"t":"num","text":"\u00a7\u202f527."},{"t":"heading","text":"Safety of vessels of the Armed Forces"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t14/s527/a","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(a)"},{"t":"content","text":" The Secretary may control the anchorage and movement of any vessel in the navigable waters of the United States to ensure the safety or security of any vessel of the Armed Forces in those waters.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t14/s527/b","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(b)"},{"t":"content","text":" If the Secretary does not exercise the authority in subsection (a) of this section and immediate action is required, the senior officer present in command may control the anchorage or movement of any vessel in the navigable waters of the United States to ensure the safety and security of any vessel of the Armed Forces under the officer\u2019s command.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t14/s527/c","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(c)"},{"t":"content","text":" If a person violates, or a vessel is operated in violation of, this section or a regulation or order issued under this section, the person or vessel is subject to the enforcement provisions in section 13\u202f","children":[{"t":"ref","text":"1"},{"t":"num","text":"1","tail":"\u202fSee References in Text note below."},{"t":"text","text":"\u202fSee References in Text note below.","tail":" of the Ports and Waterways Safety Act ("},{"t":"ref","text":"33 U.S.C. 1232","href":"/us/usc/t33/s1232","tail":")."}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t14/s527/d","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(d)"},{"t":"content","text":" As used in this section \u201cnavigable waters of the United States\u201d includes all waters of the territorial sea of the United States as described in Presidential Proclamation No. 5928 of ","children":[{"t":"text","text":"December 27, 1988","tail":"."}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t14/s527/e","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(e)"},{"t":"chapeau","text":" For purposes of this title, the term \u201cvessel of the Armed Forces\u201d means\u2014"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t14/s527/e/1","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(1)"},{"t":"content","text":" any vessel owned or operated by the Department of Defense or the Coast Guard, other than a time- or voyage-chartered vessel; and","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t14/s527/e/2","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(2)"},{"t":"content","text":" any vessel owned and operated by the Department of Transportation that is designated by the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating as a vessel equivalent to a vessel described in paragraph (1).","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"}]}]}