47 USC § 355 - Survival craft

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identifier: "/us/usc/t47/s355"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "47 USC § 355 - Survival craft"
title_number: 47
title_name: "TELECOMMUNICATIONS"
section_number: "355"
section_name: "Survival craft"
chapter_number: 5
chapter_name: "WIRE OR RADIO COMMUNICATION"
subchapter_number: "III"
subchapter_name: "SPECIAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO RADIO"
part_number: "II"
part_name: "Radio Equipment and Radio Operators On Board Ship"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2025-08-11"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, § 357, formerly § 355, as added May 20, 1937, ch. 229, § 10(b), 50 Stat. 194; renumbered § 357 and amended Aug. 13, 1954, ch. 729, § 2(a)(1), (e), 68 Stat. 706, 707; Pub. L. 89–121, § 8, Aug. 13, 1965, 79 Stat. 516.)"
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# § 355. Survival craft

Every ship required to be provided with survival craft radio by treaty to which the United States is a party, by statute, or by regulation made in conformity with a treaty, convention, or statute, shall be fitted with efficient radio equipment appropriate to such requirement under such rules and regulations as the Commission may find necessary for safety of life. For purposes of this section, “radio equipment” shall include portable as well as nonportable apparatus.

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**Source Credit**: (June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, § 357, formerly § 355, as added May 20, 1937, ch. 229, § 10(b), 50 Stat. 194; renumbered § 357 and amended Aug. 13, 1954, ch. 729, § 2(a)(1), (e), 68 Stat. 706, 707; Pub. L. 89–121, § 8, Aug. 13, 1965, 79 Stat. 516.)

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1965— substituted “survival craft” for “lifeboat”.

1954—Act , § 2(a)(1), amended credit to section by changing section number from “355” to “357” of act .

Act , § 2(e), provided that lifeboats be equipped with “radio equipment” rather than a “radio installation” and defined “radio equipment” as including portable as well as nonportable apparatus.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective , unless deferred by the Commission, see section 16 of act , set out as a note under .