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18 U.S.C. § 2277 — Explosives or dangerous weapons aboard vessels
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**(a)** Whoever brings, carries, or possesses any dangerous weapon, instrument, or device, or any dynamite, nitroglycerin, or other explosive article or compound on board of any vessel documented under the laws of the United States, or any vessel purchased, requisitioned, chartered, or taken over by the United States pursuant to the provisions of Act June 6, 1941, ch. 174, 55 Stat. 242, as amended, without previously obtaining the permission of the owner or the master of such vessel; orWhoever brings, carries, or possesses any such weapon or explosive on board of any vessel in the possession and under the control of the United States or which has been seized and forfeited by the United States or upon which a guard has been placed by the United States pursuant to the provisions of section 191 11 See References in Text note below. of Title 50, without previously obtaining the permission of the captain of the port in which such vessel is located, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
**(b)** This section shall not apply to the personnel of the Armed Forces of the United States or to officers or employees of the United States or of a State or of a political subdivision thereof, while acting in the performance of their duties, who are authorized by law or by rules or regulations to own or possess any such weapon or explosive.
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**(a)** Whoever brings, carries, or possesses any dangerous weapon, instrument, or device, or any dynamite, nitroglycerin, or other explosive article or compound on board of any vessel documented under the laws of the United States, or any vessel purchased, requisitioned, chartered, or taken over by the United States pursuant to the provisions of Act June 6, 1941, ch. 174, 55 Stat. 242, as amended, without previously obtaining the permission of the owner or the master of such vessel; orWhoever brings, carries, or possesses any such weapon or explosive on board of any vessel in the possession and under the control of the United States or which has been seized and forfeited by the United States or upon which a guard has been placed by the United States pursuant to the provisions of section 191 11 See References in Text note below. of Title 50, without previously obtaining the permission of the captain of the port in which such vessel is located, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
**(b)** This section shall not apply to the personnel of the Armed Forces of the United States or to officers or employees of the United States or of a State or of a political subdivision thereof, while acting in the performance of their duties, who are authorized by law or by rules or regulations to own or possess any such weapon or explosive.
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### Statutory Notes
#### Codification
Section, act June 15, 1917, ch. 30, title II, § 1, 40 Stat. 220; Aug. 9, 1950, ch. 656, § 1, 64 Stat. 427; Sept. 26, 1950, ch. 1049, § 2(b), 64 Stat. 1038; Pub. L. 96–70, title III, § 3302(a), Sept. 27, 1979, 93 Stat. 498; Pub. L. 104–208, div. C, title VI, § 649, Sept. 30, 1996, 110 Stat. 3009–711; Pub. L. 108–293, title II, § 223, Aug. 9, 2004, 118 Stat. 1040; Pub. L. 115–232, div. C, title XXXV, § 3548(a), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 2328; Pub. L. 115–282, title IV, § 407(b)(1)–(4), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4267, was transferred to [section 70051 of Title 46](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title46-section70051&num=0&edition=prelim), Shipping, by Pub. L. 115–282, title IV, § 407(b)(5), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4267.
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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 the department in which the Coast Guard is operating 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.
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TITLE 18—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
§ 2275
1 See References in Text note below.
Mandatory punishment provision was rephrased in
the alternative.
Minor changes were made in phraseology.
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
1994—Pub. L. 103–322 substituted ‘‘fined under this
title’’ for ‘‘fined not more than $10,000’’ in first par.
§ 2275. Firing or tampering with vessels
Whoever sets fire to any vessel of foreign reg-
istry, or any vessel of American registry enti-
tled to engage in commerce with foreign na-
tions, or to any vessel of the United States, or
to the cargo of the same, or tampers with the
motive power of instrumentalities of navigation
of such vessel, or places bombs or explosives in
or upon such vessel, or does any other act to or
upon such vessel while within the jurisdiction of
the United States, or, if such vessel is of Amer-
ican registry, while she is on the high sea, with
intent to injure or endanger the safety of the
vessel or of her cargo, or of persons on board,
whether the injury or danger is so intended to
take place within the jurisdiction of the United
States, or after the vessel shall have departed
therefrom and whoever attempts to do so shall
be fined under this title or imprisoned not more
than twenty years, or both.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 804; Pub. L.
103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(L), Sept. 13, 1994,
108 Stat. 2147.)
HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES
Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 502 (June 15, 1917,
ch. 30, title III, § 1, 40 Stat. 221).
Words ‘‘as defined in section 501 of this title,’’ were
omitted in view of section 9 of this title, defining vessel
of the United States.
Last sentence of said section 502, defining ‘‘United
States’’, was incorporated in section 5 of this title.
Provi
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