46 USC § 70053 - Enforcement provisions

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identifier: "/us/usc/t46/s70053"
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legal_status: "official_legal_evidence"
title: "46 USC § 70053 - Enforcement provisions"
title_number: 46
title_name: "SHIPPING"
section_number: "70053"
section_name: "Enforcement provisions"
chapter_number: 700
chapter_name: "PORTS AND WATERWAYS SAFETY"
subchapter_number: "VI"
subchapter_name: "REGULATION OF VESSELS IN TERRITORIAL WATERS OF UNITED STATES"
positive_law: true
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-03-26"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Added Pub. L. 115–282, title IV, § 407(d)(3), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4267.)"
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# § 70053. Enforcement provisions

The President may employ such departments, agencies, officers, or instrumentalities of the United States as he may deem necessary to carry out this subchapter.

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**Source Credit**: (Added Pub. L. 115–282, title IV, § 407(d)(3), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4267.)

## Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section, as added by , is based on acts , title II, § 4, ; , ; , (2), , , which was formerly classified to , War and National Defense, before being transferred to this chapter and renumbered as this section.