46 USC § 70054 - Definitions

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title: "46 USC § 70054 - Definitions"
title_number: 46
title_name: "SHIPPING"
section_number: "70054"
section_name: "Definitions"
chapter_number: 700
chapter_name: "PORTS AND WATERWAYS SAFETY"
subchapter_number: "VI"
subchapter_name: "REGULATION OF VESSELS IN TERRITORIAL WATERS OF UNITED STATES"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-03-26"
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source_credit: "(Added Pub. L. 115–282, title IV, § 407(a), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4266.)"
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# § 70054. Definitions

In this subchapter:

**(1)** **United states.—** The term “United States” includes all territory and waters, continental or insular, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.

**(2)** **Territorial waters.—** The term “territorial waters of the United States” includes all waters of the territorial sea of the United States as described in Presidential Proclamation 5928 of December 27, 1988.

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**Source Credit**: (Added Pub. L. 115–282, title IV, § 407(a), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4266.)

## Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Presidential Proclamation Number 5928, referred to in par. (2), is Proc. No. 5928, , 54 F.R. 777, which is set out as a note under , Public Lands.