Title 33, Navigation and Navigable WatersRelease 119-102
§883h Employment of Public Vessels
Title 33 › CHAPTER 17 — NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION › SUBCHAPTER II — SURVEYS › § 883h
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The President may use any government ships he thinks are needed and give orders about how they should be run to carry out this part of the law.
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Title 33, §883h
Navigation and Navigable Waters, Source: USLM XML via OLRC
The President is authorized to cause to be employed such of the public vessels as he deems it expedient to employ, and to give such instructions for regulating their conduct as he deems proper in order to carry out the provisions of this subchapter.
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Delegation of Functions Functions of President under this section delegated to Secretary of Commerce, see section 1(l) of Ex. Ord. No. 11023, May 28, 1962, 27 F.R. 5131, as amended, set out as a note under section 301 of Title 3, The President.
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33 U.S.C. § 883h
Title 33, Navigation and Navigable Waters
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102